Mi-yeon

Mi-yeon, also spelled Mi-youn or Mi-yeun, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

Mi-yeon
Hangul	미연
Hanja	美妍, 美衍, and others
Revised Romanization	Miyeon
McCune–Reischauer	Miyŏn

Hanja

As of December 2018^[update], regulations of the Supreme Court of Korea permit the following 44 hanja with the reading mi and 34 hanja with the reading yeon to be registered for use in given names.^[1]

• mi: 米 未 味 美 尾 迷 微 眉 渼 薇 彌 嵄 媄 媚 嵋 梶 楣 湄 謎 靡 黴 躾 媺 濔 煝 娓 洣 侎 瑂 𥹄 㵟 冞 蘪 媺 亹 弭 敉 麋 瀰 獼 糜 縻 苿 蘼
• yeon: 然 煙 硏 延 燃 燕 沿 鉛 宴 軟 演 緣 衍 淵 姸 娟 涓 沇 筵 瑌 娫 嚥 堧 捐 挻 椽 涎 縯 鳶 硯 曣 㜣 醼 兗 嬿 莚 瓀 均 戭 囦埏 悁 掾 櫞 渷 臙 蜵 蠕 讌

Ways of writing this name in hanja include:

• 美妍 (아름다울 미; areumdaul mi; 고울 연; goul yeon): "beautiful and kind-hearted"
• 美衍 (아름다울 미; areumdaul mi, 넓을 연; neolbeul yeon): "overflowing with beauty"

People

People with this name include:

• Serra Miyeun Hwang (born 1962), South Korean-born American composer
• Lee Mi-yeon (born 1971), South Korean actress
• Kim Mi-yeon (born 1979), South Korean curler
• Kan Mi-youn (born 1982), South Korean singer, member of girl group Baby Vox
• Miyeon (born Cho Mi-yeon, 1997), South Korean singer, member of girl group (G)I-dle

See also

• List of Korean given names