Eun-young, also spelled Eun-yeong is a
Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the
hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 26 hanja with the reading "''
eun
Eun, also spelled Un, or En, Ehn, Enn, Unn, is an uncommon List of Korean surnames, Korean surname, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. As given name meaning differs based on the hanja use ...
''" and 34 hanja with the reading "''
young''" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in personal names.
It was the
eighth-most popular name for baby girls born in South Korea in 1980.
People with this name include:
Sportspeople
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Nam Eun-young (born 1970), South Korean team handball player
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Cho Eun-young (born 1972), South Korean sport shooter
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Lee Eun-young (field hockey) (born 1974), South Korean field hockey player
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Lee Eun-young (taekwondo)
Lee Eun-young is a South Korean taekwondo practitioner.
She won a gold medal in lightweight at the 1987 World Taekwondo Championships in Barcelona. She won a gold medal at the 1988 Asian Taekwondo Championships
Asian may refer to:
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(), South Korean taekwondo athlete
Entertainers
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WoongSan (born Kim Eun-young, 1973), South Korean jazz musician
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Cheetah (rapper) (born Kim Eun-young, 1990), South Korean rapper
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Oh Eun-young (born 1985), South Korean television hostess
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Ben (South Korean singer) (born Lee Eun-young, 1991), South Korean singer
Other
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Choi Eun-young (born 1984), South Korean writer
*Song Eunyoung, South Korean fashion designer, co-founder of
E. Y. Wada
E.Y. Wada is a New York-based fashion label launched for the Spring 2007 season.
E.Y. Wada was founded by Eunyoung Song and Shuji Wada, who are the label's designers. Wada, who was born in Japan, was educated at the Japanese fashion school Mode a ...
Fictional characters
*Eun-yeong, lead character of the 2008 South Korean film ''
Beautiful''
*Ahn Eun-young, titular character of the 2020 South Korean drama ''
School Nurse Ahn Eun-young''
See also
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List of Korean given names
This is a list of Korean given names by type. Most Korean given names consist of two Sino-Korean morphemes each written with one hanja. There are also names with more than two syllables, often from native Korean vocabulary. Finally, there are a sm ...
References
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Korean feminine given names