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Mina (given Name)
Mina is a given name with a variety of origins, used as a feminine name in some cultures and a masculine name in others. Egypt Mina, Coptic Μήνης is a male given name for Egyptian Coptic Christians. Mina in the Coptic language (derived from ancient Egyptian language) means: a person who is steadfast, committed, unrelenting or determined. * Mina (fl. c. 3100 BC), a.k.a. Menes, legendary Egyptian ruler and the first pharaoh of Egypt. * St. Mina (Saint Menas; fl. 3rd century AD), Coptic religious leader (martyr) * Mina, son of Apacyrus (fl. 749 AD), one of the leaders of the Bashmurian revolts Arabic Mina, Minah, Meena (Arabic: مِينَا ''mīnā'') is an Arabic female given name transformed from the female given name "Amina", but perhaps the Arabic "Mina" is the Persian " Mina" which bears the meaning "stained (tinted) glass mirror", artistic paint (also generic name for enamel or varnish) for porcelain and metal. See Mina (other) Chinese Mina is a Chine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menes
Menes (fl. c. 3200–3000 BC; ; egy, mnj, probably pronounced *; grc, Μήνης) was a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt and as the founder of the First Dynasty. The identity of Menes is the subject of ongoing debate, although mainstream Egyptological consensus identifies Menes with the Naqada III ruler Narmer or First Dynasty pharaoh Hor-Aha. Both pharaohs are credited with the unification of Egypt to different degrees by various authorities. Name and identity The commonly-used name ''Menes'' derives from Manetho, an Egyptian historian and priest who lived during the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Manetho noted the name in Greek as Μήνης (transliterated: ''Mênês'').Manetho, Fr. 6, 7a, 7b. Text and translation in ''Manetho'', translated by W.G. Waddell (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1940), pp.26–35 An alternative Greek form, Μιν (transliterated: ''Min''), was cited by the fift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina Matsushima
is a Japanese swimmer. She competed for Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ..., reaching the semifinals of the 100 m breaststroke. References Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Japan 1991 births Living people People from Tokyo Japanese female breaststroke swimmers Universiade medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwon Mina
Kwon Mina (born September 21, 1993) mononymously known as Mina'','' is a South Korean singer and actress. She is best known as a former member of the girl group AOA. Kwon has acted in television dramas, including '' Modern Farmer'' (2014) and ''All About My Mom'' (2015). Early life Kwon was born on September 21, 1993, in Busan, South Korea. She auditioned for FNC in 2009, and her family moved from Busan to Seoul soon after. Career 2012–2014: Debut with AOA and solo activities On July 30, 2012, Kwon made her debut as a member of AOA on Mnet's ''M Countdown'' with the song "Elvis" from their debut single album, ''Angels' Story''. She was also part of band unit AOA Black, established in 2013. Due to her father's death on November 29, 2014, Kwon took some time off from career activities and did not participate in some promotions for "Like a Cat". In 2013, Kwon debuted as an actress with the KBS2 drama special ''Adolescence Medley'', where she played Yoon Jin-yeong. In Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Min-a
Shin Min-a (; born 5 April 1984) is a South Korean model and actress best known for starring in television dramas ''A Love to Kill'' (2005), ''My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox'' (2010), ''Arang and the Magistrate'' (2012), ''Oh My Venus'' (2015), ''Tomorrow, With You'' (2017), ''Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha'' (2021), and ''Our Blues'' (2022). Career Modeling Shin began her career as a model for the teen magazine KiKi in 1998. She has since become one of the most in-demand and highest paid commercial endorsers in South Korea. Notable among her forays into branded entertainment is the 2008 multi-episode ''Summer Days'' opposite Hyun Bin and Ryoo Seung-bum for LG Xnote featuring music by You Hee-yeol, as well as ''Friends & Love'', a movie-style extended advertisement for Giordano in 2011 costarring Jung Woo-sung and So Ji-sub. In 2009, Shin went to Milan, Italy to shoot a photo spread for ''Elle Korea'' with Calvin Klein model Jamie Dornan. In 2011, she was chosen as the first As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jung Mina
Jung Mina (born January 31, 1979) is a South Korean musician, known as the first gayageum singer-songwriter. She sings contemporary music and uses non-traditional techniques in her gayageum playing. Early life and career Jung started learning to play the gayageum, a traditional Korean string instrument, at 12 years old. She said it became a big part of her life, so she continued to play it as she developed her music career. She found the instrument when she started taking traditional Korean dance in elementary school. From her second year in middle school she started lessons with a neighborhood teacher, then studied at Gukak National High School, Hanyang University, and Sookmyung Women's University. She worked various part-time jobs during school and after starting her musical career, including in the ticket office of a racecourse on the weekends for four years, and at a call center, like many of her friends. She said making a living with music was difficult. During a leave fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shim Mina
Shim Mina (; born December 1, 1972), known simply as Mina (미나), is a South Korean singer and dancer. She rose to fame at the World Cup in 2002, eventually deciding to become a K-pop singer. On July 7, 2018, Mina married Ryu Philip, a member of Kpop boy band Tri:al (트라이얼), formerly known as SoReal (소리얼). Dancing career Shim Mina was first a backup dancer for various Korean pop artists such as Park Jin-young and Park Ji-yoon. Discovery She initially found instant fame as "Miss World Cup" at the 2002 FIFA World Cup; when pictures of her with the "Be The Reds!" bandanna around her chest and the Korean flag used as a skirt were beamed around the world. Afterwards, she signed a record deal with J-Entercom Entertainment, and prepared to release her debut album. Music career 2002: Rendezvous Mina released her debut single ''전화받어'' ("''Answer the Phone''") in October 2002. She subsequently released her first album, ''Rendezvous'' later in that month. 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl's Day
Girl's Day () is a South Korean girl group formed by Dream T Entertainment in 2010. The group consists of members Sojin, Minah, Yura, and Hyeri. Members Jisun and Jiin officially left the group in 2010, while Jihae left in late 2012. After said member departures, the quartet went on to become one of the most popular and commercially successful groups of its era. In order of release, the group's biggest hits include "Twinkle Twinkle", "Hug Me Once", "Expect", "Something", "Darling", and "Ring My Bell", all of which have sold more than one million digital copies each. Over the span of their career, Girl's Day has endorsed over 20 brands, including LG Electronics, Ezaki Glico's Pocky, Lotte World, Nexon and Bullsone. Girl's Day ranked 13th in Korea Power Celebrity in 2015, a list ranking Korea's most powerful and influential celebrities. In 2016, the group ranked 26th, whereas member Hyeri ranked 3rd. In 2019, the four members decided not to renew their contracts with Drea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang Min-ah
Bang Min-ah (; born May 13, 1993), better known by the mononym Minah, is a South Korean singer and actress. She debuted as a member of the girl group Girl's Day in 2010 and released her first solo album, ''I Am a Woman Too,'' in 2015. She has acted in various films and television series, including lead roles in ''Beautiful Gong Shim'' (2016) and ''My Absolute Boyfriend'' (2019). Early life Bang Min-ah was born on May 13, 1993, in Incheon, South Korea. She attended Jinsun Girls' High School and majored in Broadcasting at Dongduk Women's University. Music career Girl's Day On July 9, 2010, Minah made her debut as a member of girl group Girl's Day on ''Music Bank'' with their first single "Tilt My Head." Solo career Minah has released several solo singles; among them are "Holding Hands," a song on Lee Hyun-do's project album ''4U''; and "You, I" for the soundtrack of the SBS drama ''Doctor Stranger''. On March 3, 2015, DreamT announced that Minah would be making her solo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Min (Korean Name)
Min is an uncommon Korean family name as well as a common syllable in Korean given names. As a family name The Korean family name Min is written with only one hanja (). The 2000 census found 142,752 people in 43,887 households belonging to this clan (about 0.35% of the South Korean population at the time), making it the 47th-most-common surname among the 286 surnames listed in the census. This represented a growth of 3.8 percent from 137,317 in the 1985 census, a far smaller increase than the fifteen percent growth in the overall South Korean population over the same period. The family name Min has one major clan lineage, the Yeoheung Min clan, whose ''bon-gwan'' (origin of the lineage, not necessarily the residence of living members) is present-day Yeoju, Gyeonggi Province. Yeoju has traditionally been called Yeoheung (during Joseon dynasty) and Hwangryeo (Goryeo dynasty), and the Min family has accordingly been referred to as Hwangryeo Mins or other variations during differen ... [...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] |
Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used to pronounce them, and they are systematically modified to indicate phonetic features; similarly, the vowel letters are systematically modified for related sounds, making Hangul a featural writing system. It has been described as a syllabic alphabet as it combines the features of alphabetic and syllabic writing systems, although it is not necessarily an abugida. Hangul was created in 1443 CE by King Sejong the Great in an attempt to increase literacy by serving as a complement (or alternative) to the logographic Sino-Korean ''Hanja'', which had been used by Koreans as its primary script to write the Korean language since as early as the Gojoseon period (spanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina Watanabe
is a Japanese judoka. She is from Mito, Ibaraki. After graduation from high school, she worked for Komatsu Limited or () is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures construction, mining, forestry and military equipment, as well as diesel engines and industrial equipment like press machines, lasers and thermoelectric generators. Its headquarte .... She won the bronze medal in the Middleweight (70 kg) division at the 2009 World Judo Championships. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Watanabe, Mina Japanese female judoka 1985 births Living people Judoka at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Japan 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
