Monday, February 6, 2012

Meaning of a few korean names...ten points for good explanations!?

I have a few Korean friends, and I don't know what their Korean names mean...if anyone's Korean out their, can you give a good explanation for:





Choi Min-ji





and





Kim Young-Kyoung





Thank you!|||Choi Min-ji is a Korean name. Not all Koreans have Kim as a last name.





I don' think the family names "Choi" and "Kim" don't really mean anything significant....


And


Nobody can tell you what these two names mean unless you write them out in (traditional) Chinese since "Min" and all other syllables can mean several different things.


Ask your friends if they know their names in written traditional Chinese.


Then draw the characters (individually) in this useful website, http://www.nciku.com (although it is for simplified Chinese you can still kind of use it for traditional Chinese) and see what the individual characters mean and put the two characters of one name together to see what it probably means.|||Choi Min-ji sounds Chinese. Half the people in Korea have the family name Kim.

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