Dae-won (name)

For the Korean name spelled 태원, see Tae-won.

Dae-won, also spelled Dai-won or Tae-won, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

Dae-won
Hangul	대원
Hanja	大元, 大源 and others
Revised Romanization	Dae-won
McCune–Reischauer	Tae-won

Hanja

There are 17 hanja with the reading "dae" and 35 hanja with the reading "won" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.^[1] Ways of writing this name in hanja include:

• 大元 (클 대 keul dae, 으뜸 원 euddeum won): "great origin". These same characters are also used to write the Japanese names Oomoto, Masamoto, and Hiromoto.^[2]
• 大源 (클 대 keul dae, 근원 원): "great spring".

People

• Daewon (born Moon Jae-hyeon, 1936), South Korean Zen master
• Dai-won Moon (born 1968), South Korean-born Mexican taekwondo master
• Kim C (born Kim Dae-won, 1971), South Korean singer
• Daewon Song (born 1975), American skateboarder
• Im Dae-won (born 1976), South Korean Greco-Roman wrestler
• Ha Dae-won (born 1985), South Korean football player
• Bae Dae-won (born 1988), South Korean football player
• Tochinowaka Michihiro (born Lee Dae-won, 1988), Japanese sumo wrestler
• Kim Dae-won (footballer, born 1992), South Korean football player
• Kim Dae-won (footballer, born 1997), South Korean football player
• Park Dae-won (born 1998), South Korean football player

See also

• List of Korean given names