Chae (Korean given name)

Chae (Korean: 채), also less commonly spelled Chai, Ch'ae, or Chea, is a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as a common syllable in Korean given names.

Chae
Hangul	채
Hanja	採彩債埰寀綵寨砦釵琗 責棌婇睬
Revised Romanization	Chae
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'ae

People

People with the single-syllable given name Chae include:

• Yi Ch'ae (born 1616), Joseon Confucian writer
• Yi Ch'ae (born 1700) [ko], Joseon scholar-official
• Yi Ch'ae (born 1745), Joseon scholar-official

As a name element

There are 17 hanja with the reading Chae on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:^[1]

1. 菜 (나물 채 namul chae): vegetable
2. 採 (캘 채 kael chae): to lift
3. 彩 (채색 채 chaesaek chae): colour
4. 債 (빚 채 bit chae): debt
5. 采 (풍채 채 pungchae chae, 캘 채 kael chae): appearance
6. 埰 (사패지 채 sapaeji chae): fief
7. 寀 (녹봉 채 nokbong chae): stipend
8. 蔡 (성씨 채 seongssi chae): used as a family name (originally a species of tortoise)
9. 綵 (비단 채 bidan chae): silk
10. 寨 (목책 채 mokchaek chae): wooden fence
11. 琗 (옥빛 채 okbit chae): brightness of jade
12. 砦 (진터 채 jinteo chae): fort
13. 釵 (비녀 채 binyeo chae): binyeo (traditional Korean hairpin)
14. 責 (빚 채 bit chae): debt
15. 棌 (참나무 채 chamnamu chae): oak tree
16. 婇 (여자의 자 채 yeojaui ja chae): used in women's names
17. 睬 (주목할 채 jumokhal chae): to watch

Korean given names containing the element Chae include:

• Chae-won (feminine)
• Chae-yeon (feminine)
• Chae-young (feminine)
• Eun-chae (feminine)

See also

• List of Korean given names