Jeong-hyo, also spelled Jung-hyo, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.
Jeong-hyo | |
Hangul | 정효 |
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Hanja | (various) |
Revised Romanization | Jeonghyo |
McCune–Reischauer | Chŏnghyo |
Hanja
editThere are 75 hanja with the reading "jeong" and 24 hanja with the reading "hyo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[1] Some ways of writing this name in hanja include:
People
editPeople with this name include:
- Princess Jeonghyo of Balhae (d. 792), who is buried at the Mausoleum of Princess Jeonghyo
- Sinjong of Goryeo (1144–1204), posthumous name Jeonghyo, twentieth monarch of the Goryeo Dynasty
- Ahn Junghyo (born 1941), South Korean male novelist
- Lee Jung-hyo (born 1975), South Korean male football player