Hye-young, also spelled Hye-yeong or Hye-yong, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 16 hanja with the reading "hye" and 34 hanja with the reading "young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1]
Hye-young | |
Hangul | 혜영 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Hye-yeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Hyeyŏng |
People with this name include:
Entertainers
edit- Lee Hye-young (actress, born 1962), South Korean actress
- Lee Hye-young (actress, born 1971), South Korean actress
- Jung Hye-young (born 1973), South Korean actress
- Ryu Hye-young (born 1991), South Korean actress
Sportspeople
edit- Hwang Hye-young (born 1966), South Korean badminton player
- Yoon Hye-young (born 1977), South Korean archer and Olympic champion
- Son Hye-yong (born 1980), North Korean archer
- Byun Hye-young (born 1983), South Korean swimmer
- Kim Hye-yeong (born 1995), South Korean football player
Others
edit- Pyun Hye-young (born 1972), South Korean writer
Fictional characters
edit- Artist Hye-young, in 2006 South Korean film Daisy
- Ahn Hye-young, in 2014 South Korean television series The Idle Mermaid
- Byun Hye-young, in 2017 South Korean television series My Father Is Strange
- Lee Hye-yeong (李惠永), one of the two leading male characters in South Korean Netflix original series Love Alarm (2019-2021)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF) (in Korean). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2018.