Soo-jung, also spelled Soo-jeong, or Su-jeong, Su-jung, Su-jong, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 90 hanja with the reading "soo"[1] and 84 hanja with the reading "jung"[2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. It also means "crystal" in Korean which uses the hanja "水晶".
Soo-jung | |
Hangul | 수정 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Su-jeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Sujŏng |
IPA | [sudzʌŋ] |
People with this name include:
Sportspeople
edit- Park Soo-jeong (born 1972), South Korean female volleyball player
- Lim Su-jeong (kickboxer) (born 1985), South Korean female kickboxer
- Lim Su-jeong (taekwondo) (born 1986), South Korean female taekwondo practitioner
- Hong Su-jong (born 1986 or 1989), North Korean female artistic gymnast
- Jang Su-jeong (born 1995), South Korean female tennis player
- Kim Su-jong (born 2000), North Korean female artistic gymnast
Entertainers
edit- Hwang Soo-jung (born 1972), South Korean actress
- Im Soo-jung (born 1979), South Korean actress
- Lee Soo-jung (born 1993), Korean-American singer-songwriter
- Krystal Jung (Korean name Jung Soo-jung, born 1994), South Korean female singer, member of girl group f(x)
- Ryu Su-jeong (born 1997), South Korean female singer, member of girl group Lovelyz
- Kim Su-jung (born 2004), South Korean actress
Other
edit- Andrew Yeom Soo-jung (born 1943), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seoul
- Kim Soo-jung (born 1950), South Korean male cartoonist
- Nicole Chung (Korean name Jung Soo Jung, born 1981), Korean-American author
- Soo Jung Ann (born 1989), South Korean female pianist
- Christel Lee (Korean name Lee Soo-jung, born 1990), American-Canadian female violinist of Korean descent