Seong-ja

Seong-ja, also spelled Sung-ja, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.^[1] There are 27 hanja with the reading "seong" and 28 hanja with the reading "ja" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.^[2] Typically, "ja" is written with the hanja meaning "child" (子). Names ending with this hanja, such as Young-ja and Jeong-ja, were popular when Korea was under Japanese rule, but declined in popularity afterward.^[3] The hanja used to write the name Seong-ja also correspond to a number of different Japanese given names; for example, both 成子 and 聖子 can be read as the name Seiko.^[4]

Seong-ja
Hangul	성자
Hanja	成子, 聖子, and others
Revised Romanization	Seong-ja
McCune–Reischauer	Sŏngja

People with this name include:

• Seund Ja Rhee (1918–2009), South Korean expatriate artist in France
• Shin Seong-Ja (born 1968), South Korean fencer
• Park Sung-Ja (born 1980), South Korean judo practitioner

See also

• List of Korean given names