Seong Explained

Hangul:성
Hanja:Family or given:

"succeed"

Given name only:

Mr:Sŏng
Rr:Seong

Seong, also spelled Song or Sung, is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as a common element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

The family name Seong is written with only one hanja, meaning "succeed" or "accomplish" . The 2000 South Korean Census found 167,903 people with this family name, up by six percent from 158,385 in the 1985 census. This increase was far smaller than the fifteen percent growth in the overall South Korean population over the same period.[1] They traced their origins to only a single bon-gwan, Changnyeong County.[2] This was also the place where they formed the highest concentration of the local population, with 2,360 people (3.61%).[1]

In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 67.4% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Sung in their passports. The Revised Romanisation spelling Seong was in second place at 29.4%. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 3.2%) included Seung, Shung, and the Yale Romanisation spelling Seng.[3]

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Other

Fictional characters

In given names

Hanja

, regulations of the Supreme Court of Korea permit the following 24 hanja with the reading Seong, plus six variant forms, to be registered for use in given names.[4]

Ten characters from the table of basic hanja for educational use:

  1. : "family name"
  2. : "character", "personality"
  3. : "accomplish"
  4. : "castle"
  5. : "sincere"
  6. : "abundant"
  7. : "to observe"
  8. : "sage"
  9. : "voice"
  10. : "star"

Fourteen characters from the table of additional hanja for name use:

  1. : name of a kind of jade
  2. : "beautiful"
  3. : "brightness of jade"
  4. : "to realise"
  5. : "to awaken"
  6. : "library"
  7. : "orangutan"
  8. : "reed"
  9. : "rotting meat"
  10. : "property", "valuables"
  11. : "victory"
  12. : "bright"

"sharp hearing"[8]

  1. : "red horse"

People

People with the monosyllabic given name Seong include:

As name element

Many names starting with this element have been popular names for newborn baby boys in earlier decades, according to South Korean government data:[9] [10]

Other names containing beginning with this element include:

Other names ending with this element include:

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 성씨인구분포데이터. Family name population and distribution data. National Statistics Office. South Korea. 2013-05-28. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131101034812/http://sgis.nso.go.kr/pyramid/view_familyname_dmc_table.asp. 2013-11-01.
  2. Web site: 한국성씨일람. List of Korean family names. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. 2013-10-30.
  3. Book: http://korean.go.kr/front/etcData/etcDataView.do?etc_seq=179&mn_id=46. ko:성씨 로마자 표기 방안: 마련을 위한 토론회. Plan for romanisation of surnames: a preparatory discussion. National Institute of the Korean Language. 25 June 2009. 22 October 2015. 59.
  4. 가족관계의 등록 등에 관한 규칙. Regulations on Registration of Family Relations. 2954. 29 January 2021. Regulation. ko.
  5. This variant uses in place of the hook stroke used in the standard form.
  6. This is officially listed as a separate character in Schedule 1 of the regulations, rather than a variant form in Schedule 2 of the regulations.
  7. This variant form is not yet encoded in Unicode.
  8. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block and might not be displayed or printed properly. It consists of the ear radical and a character meaning "star" .
  9. Web site: 한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?. babyname.co.kr. 2012-11-09.
  10. Web site: 한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?. babyname.co.kr. 2012-11-09.

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