Yihwa Explained
| Yihwa |
| Gender: | - Korean: Unisex
- Chinese: Unisex
- Thai: Feminine
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| Meaning: | - Thai: "soul", "heart"[1]
- Korean: various, e.g. "plum blossom" or "pear blossom"
- Chinese: various
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| Origin: | - Thai (ยิหวา)
- Korean (이화)
- Chinese (various, e.g. 怡樺 or 沂華)
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| Related Names: | Wanyiwa, etc. |
Yihwa is a given name in various cultures.
In Chinese and Korean
In Chinese and Korean, the meaning of the name varies depending on the Chinese characters used to write each syllable of the name. For example, the Chinese-derived Korean words for "pear blossoms" (Korean: 梨花) and "plum blossoms" (Korean: 李花) are both pronounced "Yi-hwa" in Korean.[2] There are a great variety of potential meanings, as there are 35 hanja with the reading "yi" and 15 hanja with the reading "hwa" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[3] In Chinese Pinyin, the name could also be spelled Yihua.
In Thailand
In Thai, Yihwa (Thai: ยิหวา,, in Thai pronounced as /jíʔ.wǎː/), also spelled Yiwha and Yiwah, is a feminine given name meaning "soul" or "heart". It is derived from Javanese: jiwa|italics=yes, in turn from either Sanskrit or Pali , meaning "life". It is often a shortened form of the associated name Wanyiwa (Thai: หวันยิหวา, also spelled Wanyihwa, etc.).
People
- Eva Chen (; Chen Yi-hwa; born 1959), Taiwanese businesswoman who founded security firm Trend Micro
- Yihua An (; born 1970), Chinese doctor
- Wan Yihwa (born 2007), Korean-Burmese singer
Fictional characters
- Yihwa, a character from the 2016 Thai television series Bad Romance and its prequel
- Yi-hwa, main character of the 1977 South Korean film Winter Woman
- Ahn Yi-hwa, character in the 1997 South Korean television drama Star in My Heart
- Shin Yi-hwa, character in the 2007 South Korean film Black House
- Yeon Yi-hwa, character from the South Korean webtoon Tower of God
- Yiwa, character from the Thailand Boy love Series Wedding Plan
Notes and References
- 2554-2. 953.
- Web site: 이화. Naver Dictionary. 15 August 2018.
- Web site: 인명용 한자표. Table of hanja for use in personal names. Supreme Court. South Korea. August 2007. 2013-10-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20170829123222/http://help.scourt.go.kr/nm/img/hanja/hanja.pdf. 29 August 2017.
