Chae-won explained

Chae-won
Gender:	Unisex
Meaning:	different depending on Hanja
Origin:	Korean

Hangul:	채원
Hanja:	,, and others
Rr:	Chae-won
Mr:	Ch'aewŏn
Koreanipa:	[tɕʰɛwʌn]

Chae-won is a Korean unisex given name, predominantly feminine. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 18 hanja with the reading "chae"^[1] and 47 hanja with the reading "won"^[2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Chae-won was the seventh-most-popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 2013.^{[3] [4]}

People

People with this name include:

• Kim Chae-won (writer) (born 1946), South Korean writer
• Lee Chae-won (born 1981), South Korean female cross-country skier
• Moon Chae-won (born 1986), South Korean actress
• So Chae-won (born 1997), South Korean archer
• Kim Chae-won (born 2000), South Korean singer and member of girl group Le Sserafim

Fictional characters

Fictional characters with this name include:

• Min Chae-won, in 2013 South Korean television series A Hundred Year Legacy

See also

• List of Korean given names

Notes and References

1. https://hanja.dict.naver.com/#/category/name 대법원 인명용 : 네이버 한자사전 "채"
2. https://hanja.dict.naver.com/#/category/name 대법원 인명용 : 네이버 한자사전 "원"
3. [list of the most popular given names in South Korea]
4. Web site: 신생아 인기 이름 1위, 철수와 영자에서…세월 따라 이름도 . . 28 July 2014 . 11 February 2016.