Chang-ho

For the general and the river spelled Chang Ho in Chinese Wade–Giles romanisation, see Zhang He and Zhang River.

Chang-ho is a Korean masculine given name.

Chang-ho
Hangul	창호
Hanja	昌浩, 昌鎬, 彰浩, 昶浩, and others
Revised Romanization	Chang-ho
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'angho

Hanja

The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 25 hanja with the reading "chang" and 49 hanja with the reading "ho" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.^[1] Ways of writing this name in hanja include:

• 昌浩 (창성할 창 changseonghal chang, 넓을 호 neolbul ho): "prosperous and large". The same characters are also one possible way of writing the Japanese given name Masahiro.^[2]
• 昌鎬 (창성할 창 changseonghal chang, 호경 호 hogyeong ho): "prosperous and bright"

People

People with this name include:

Sportspeople

• Kim Chang-ho (fl. 1960s), North Korean table tennis player
• Choi Chang-ho (born 1964), South Korean boxer
• Song Chang-ho (born 1986), South Korean football midfielder
• Lee Chang-ho (baseball) (born 1987), South Korean baseball player
• Lee Chang-ho (footballer) (born 1989), South Korean football midfielder

Other

• Ahn Changho (1878–1938), Korean independence activist
• Cho Chang-ho (soldier) (1930–2006), South Korean soldier held prisoner in North Korea for 43 years
• Bae Chang-ho (born 1953), South Korean film director
• Chung Chang-ho (born 1967), South Korean judge on the International Criminal Court
• Kim Chang-ho (climber) (1969–2018), South Korean mountain climber
• Cho Chang-ho (film director) (born 1972), South Korean film director
• Lee Chang-ho (born 1975), South Korean professional Go player

See also

• List of Korean given names