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Dae-sung (name)
Dae-sung, also spelled Dae-seong, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 17 hanja with the reading "dae" and 27 hanja with the reading "seong, sung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. People People with this name include: Sportspeople *Lee Dae-Sung (born 1958), South Korean-born American taekwondo practitioner *Koo Dae-sung (born 1969), South Korean baseball player *Kim Dae-sung (born 1972), South Korean football midfielder *Kwak Dae-sung (born 1973), South Korean judo practitioner *Moon Dae-sung (born 1976), South Korean taekwondo practitioner *Kim Dae-sung (badminton) (born 1984), South Korean badminton player *Ha Dae-sung (born 1985), South Korean football midfielder *Moon Dae-seong (born 1986), South Korean football forward *Hwang Te-song (born 1989), Zainichi Korean football defender (J. League 2) *Jin Dae-sung (born 1989), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanja
Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, which can be written with Hanja, and (, ) refers to Classical Chinese writing, although "Hanja" is also sometimes used to encompass both concepts. Because Hanja never underwent any major reforms, they are mostly resemble to ''kyūjitai'' and traditional Chinese characters, although the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, the characters and as well as and . Only a small number of Hanja characters were modified or are unique to Korean, with the rest being identical to the traditional Chinese characters. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters. In Japan, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
