Hye-young

Hye-young, also spelled Hye-yeong or Hye-yong, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 16 hanja with the reading "hye" and 34 hanja with the reading "young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.^[1]

Hye-young
Hangul	혜영
Hanja	惠英, 慧英, and others
Revised Romanization	Hye-yeong
McCune–Reischauer	Hyeyŏng

People with this name include:

Entertainers

• Lee Hye-young (actress, born 1962), South Korean actress
• Lee Hye-young (actress, born 1971), South Korean actress
• Jung Hye-young (born 1973), South Korean actress
• Ryu Hye-young (born 1991), South Korean actress

Sportspeople

• Hwang Hye-young (born 1966), South Korean badminton player
• Yoon Hye-young (born 1977), South Korean archer
• Son Hye-yong (born 1980), North Korean archer
• Byun Hye-young (born 1983), South Korean swimmer
• Kim Hye-yeong (born 1995), South Korean football player

Others

• Pyun Hye-young (born 1972), South Korean writer

Fictional characters

• Artist Hye-young, in 2006 South Korean film Daisy
• Ahn Hye-young, in 2014 South Korean television series The Idle Mermaid
• Byun Hye-young, in 2017 South Korean television series My Father Is Strange
• Lee Hye-yeong, in 2019 South Korean television series Love Alarm

See also

• List of Korean given names