Gyeon (甄), (堅) is a
Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...
n surname.
Meaning
Gyeon comes from the
Sino-Korean ''京 (gyeong)'' meaning "capital city", ''景 (gyeong)'' meaning "scenery, view", ''敬 (gyeong)'' meaning "respect, honour", or other
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, wh ...
characters with the same pronunciation.
It usually occurs in combination with another character, though it is sometimes used as a stand-alone name.
甄 (Zhen)
Gyeon (甄) is a Chinese–Korean surname. It has two Chinese dialects:
Zhen and
Jian
The ''jian'' (pronunciation （劍）, English approximation: ) is a double-edged straight sword used during the last 2,500 years in China. The first Chinese sources that mention the ''jian'' date to the 7th century BCE, during the Spring and ...
. This is due to the change of dialect by
Sun Quan
Sun Quan (, Chinese: 孫權) (183 – 21 May 252), courtesy name Zhongmou (), posthumously known as Emperor Da of Wu, was the founder of the Eastern Wu dynasty, one of the Three Kingdoms of China. He inherited control of the warlord regime es ...
. In the
Korean language
Korean ( South Korean: , ''hangugeo''; North Korean: , ''chosŏnmal'') is the native language for about 80 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the official and national language of both North Korea and South Korea (geographic ...
it also has two dialects: Gyeon and
Jin.
堅 (Jian)
Gyeon Quan (堅權) was a general during the early
Goryeo
Goryeo (; ) was a Korean kingdom founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until 1392. Goryeo achieved what has been called a "true national unificati ...
dynasty in the 10th century AD.
See also
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Jeon (Korean name)
Jeon (전), also often spelled Jun, Chun or Chon, is a common Korean family name. As of the South Korean census of 2000, there were 687,867 people with this name in South Korea. It can be written with three different hanja, each with different me ...
Korean-language surnames
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