Seong (Korean given name)

Seong (Korean: 성), also spelled Song or Sung, is a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as a common element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Seong
Hangul	성
Hanja	成姓性城誠盛省聖聲星珹娍瑆惺醒宬猩筬腥貹胜晟𦖤騂成盛誠城
Revised Romanization	Seong
McCune–Reischauer	Sŏng

Hanja

As of December 2018^[update], regulations of the Supreme Court of Korea permit the following 24 hanja with the reading Seong, plus six variant forms, to be registered for use in given names.^[1]

Ten characters from the table of basic hanja for educational use:

1. 姓 (성씨 성; seongssi seong): "family name"
2. 性 (성품 성; seongpum seong): "character", "personality"
3. 成 (이룰 성; irul seong): "accomplish"
   • 成 (variant)^[a][b]
4. 城 (재 성; jae seong): "castle"
   • 城 (variant)^[a][b]
5. 誠 (정성 성; jeongseong seong): "sincere"
   • 誠 (variant)^[a][b]
6. 盛 (성할 성; seonghal seong): "abundant"
   • 盛 (variant)^[a][b]
7. 省 (살필 성; salpil seong): "to observe"
8. 聖 (성인 성; seong-in seong): "sage"
9. 聲 (소리 성; sori seong): "voice"
10. 星 (별 성; byeol seong): "star"

Fourteen characters from the table of additional hanja for name use:

1. 珹 (옥 이름 성; ok ireum seong): name of a kind of jade
2. 娍 (아름다울 성; areumdaul seong): "beautiful"
3. 瑆 (옥빛 성; okbit seong): "brightness of jade"
4. 惺 (깨달을 성; ggaedareul seong): "to realise"
5. 醒 (깰 성; ggael seong): "to awaken"
6. 宬 (서고 성; seogo seong): "library"
7. 猩 (성성이 성; seongseong-i seong): "orangutan"
8. 筬 (바디 성; badi seong): "reed"
9. 腥 (비릴 성; biril seong): "rotting meat"
10. 貹 (재물 성; jaemul seong): "property", "valuables"
11. 胜 (비릴 성; biril seong): "victory"
12. 晟 (밝을 성; balgeul seong): "bright"
    • 晠 (variant)
    • ⿱日成 (variant)^[a][c]
13. 𦖤: "sharp hearing"^[d]
14. 騂 (붉은말 성; bulgeun mal seong): "red horse"

People

People with the monosyllabic given name Seong include:

• Chŏng Sŏng (fl. 11th century), Goryeo military commander
• Jin Xing (김성; Gim Seong; born 1967), Chinese ballet dancer of Korean descent

As name element

Many names starting with this element have been popular names for newborn baby boys in earlier decades, according to South Korean government data:^[2][3]

• 1940: Sung-ki (9th place)
• 1950: Sung-soo (3rd place) and Sung-ho (6th place)
• 1960: Sung-ho (1st place) and Sung-soo (7th place)
• 1970: Sung-ho (2nd place), Sung-jin (3rd place), Sung-hoon (5th place), and Sung-min (8th place)
• 1980: Sung-min (2nd place) and Sung-hoon (6th place)
• 1990: Sung-min (3rd place) and Sung-hyun (4th place)

Other names containing beginning with this element include:

• Sung-chul (masculine)
• Sung-ha (masculine)
• Seong-han (unisex)
• Sung-hee (unisex)
• Seong-ja (feminine)
• Sung-keun (masculine)
• Sung-kyung (unisex)
• Sung-mi (feminine)
• Sung-nam (masculine)
• Sung-sook (feminine)
• Sung-woo (masculine)
• Sung-yong (masculine)

Other names ending with this element include:

• Dae-sung (masculine)
• Hae-seong (masculine)
• Hee-sung (unisex)
• Hye-sung (unisex)
• Il-sung (masculine)
• Jae-sung (masculine)
• Jin-sung (unisex)
• Oh-seong (masculine)
• Tae-sung (masculine)
• Woo-sung (masculine)

See also

• List of Korean given names

Notes

1. This variant uses 丁 in place of the hook stroke used in the standard form.
2. This is officially listed as a separate character in Schedule 1 of the regulations, rather than a variant form in Schedule 2 of the regulations.
3. This variant form is not yet encoded in Unicode.
4. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block and might not be displayed or printed properly. It consists of the ear radical and a character meaning "star" (⿱耳星).