Hui-cheol or Hee-chul is a Korean masculine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 25 hanja with the reading "hee" and 11 hanja with the reading "chul" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[1]
Hui-cheol | |
Hangul | 희철 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Hui-cheol |
McCune–Reischauer | Hŭich'ŏl |
People with this name include:
- Chun Hee-chul (born 1973), South Korean basketball player
- Kim Hee-chul (born 1983), South Korean singer, member of boy band Super Junior
- Hichori Morimoto (born Lee Hui-cheol, 1981), Japanese baseball player
- Park Hee-chul (born 1986), South Korean football player
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2013-10-17.