Hye-ja is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

Hye-ja
Hangul
혜자
Hanja
and others
Revised RomanizationHye-ja
McCune–ReischauerHyeja

Hanja

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There are 16 hanja with the reading "hye" and 28 hanja with the reading "ja" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[1] Typically, "ja" is written with a hanja meaning "child" (). Names ending with this hanja, such as Young-ja and Jeong-ja, were popular when Korea was under Japanese rule, but declined in popularity afterwards.[2] Some ways of writing this name in hanja include:

People

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People with this name include:

Fictional characters with this name include:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). Seoul: Supreme Court of Korea. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  2. ^ "가장 흔한 이름은? 男 영수→민준ㆍ女 영자→서연" [The most popular names? Boys: Young-su → Min-jun, girls: Young-ja → Seo-yeon]. Korea Economic Daily. 20 March 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  3. ^ Breen, Jim (2011). Japanese Names Dictionary. Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2016.