Hye-young, also spelled Hye-yeong or Hye-yong, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 16 hanja with the reading "hye" and 34 hanja with the reading "young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1]

Hye-young
Hangul
혜영
Hanja
, , and others
Revised RomanizationHye-yeong
McCune–ReischauerHyeyŏng

People with this name include:

Entertainers

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Sportspeople

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Others

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Fictional characters

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  • Artist Hye-young, in 2006 South Korean film Daisy
  • Ahn Hye-young, in 2014 South Korean television series The Idle Mermaid
  • Byun Hye-young, in 2017 South Korean television series My Father Is Strange
  • Lee Hye-yeong, in 2019 South Korean television series Love Alarm

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF) (in Korean). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2018.