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Tae, also spelled Tai or Thae, is a rare Korean family name. It is written with a hanja character meaning "great".
Tae | |
Hangul | 태 |
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Hanja | 太: "great" |
Revised Romanization | Tae |
McCune–Reischauer | T'ae |
As a rare Korean family name, Tae is written with only one hanja, meaning "great" (太).[1] They are a noble clan directly descended from the royal family of the Balhae dynasty. The clan ancestor is Dae Jung-sang, the father of the founder of Balhae, Dae Jo-young. The 2000 South Korean Census found 8,165 people with the family name Tae.[2] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 28.5% of people with that surname spelled it in Latin letters as Tai in their passports, vs. 57.1% as Tae.[3] People with this surname trace their origins to several bon-gwan, including Namwon and Yeongsun in what is now South Korea and Hyopgye in what is now North Korea.[1]
People with this family name include:
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