Ha-yoon

Ha-yoon, also Ha-yun, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 24 hanja with the reading "ha" and 16 hanja with the reading "yoon" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1] Ha-yoon was the fifth-most popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 2015, with 2,356 being given the name, and rose to first place in the first nine months of 2017.[2][3]

Ha-yoon
Hangul
하윤
Hanja
昰昀, 河允, and others
Revised RomanizationHayun
McCune–ReischauerHayun
IPA[ha̠jun]

People with this name include:

  • Kim Ha-yoon (fl. 1960), South Korean male skier, represented South Korea in Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 km.
  • Song Ha-yoon (born Kim Mi-sun, 1986), South Korean actress
  • Seol Ha-yoon (born 1992), South Korean female trot singer
  • Lee Ha-yoon (born 1994), South Korean female singer, member of Brave Girls
  • Ji Ha-yoon (born Ji Yoon-mi, 1995), South Korean actress and model.

See also

References
  1. "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.
  2. "2015 신생아 인기 이름… 男 '민준'-女 2년째 '서윤'". Money Today. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  3. "자녀 이름 女'하윤'·男'도윤' 인기…개명 땐 서연·민준" [Names for children, girls 'Ha-yun' and boys 'Do-yun' popular ... for name changes, Seo-yeon and Min-jun]. News1. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
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