Dae-sung, also spelled Dae-seong, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 17 hanja with the reading "dae" and 27 hanja with the reading "sung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1]
Dae-sung | |
Hangul | 대성 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Dae-seong |
McCune–Reischauer | Taesŏng |
People
editPeople with this name include:
Sportspeople
edit- Lee Dae-Sung (born 1958), Korean-American taekwondo practitioner
- Koo Dae-sung (born 1969), South Korean baseball player
- Kim Dae-sung (born 1972), South Korean football player
- Kwak Dae-sung (born 1973), South Korean judoka
- Moon Dae-sung (born 1976), South Korean taekwondo practitioner
- Kim Dae-sung (badminton) (born 1984), South Korean badminton player
- Ha Dae-sung (born 1985), South Korean football player
- Moon Dae-seong (born 1986), South Korean football player
- Hwang Te-song (born 1989), South Korean football player
- Jin Dae-sung (born 1989), South Korean football player
Other
edit- Kim Daeseong (700–774), Silla minister
- Kang Daesung (born 1989), South Korean singer, member of boy band Big Bang
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 2014-04-15.