Tae-yong

For the more common Korean masculine given name (spelled 태영 in hangul), see Tae-young.

Tae-yong is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading "tae" and 24 hanja with the reading "yong" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Additionally, there is one character with the reading "ryong" which may also be written and pronounced "yong" in South Korea.^[1]

Tae-yong
Hangul	태용
Hanja	太庸, 台龍, 泰容, and others
Revised Romanization	Tae-yong
McCune–Reischauer	T'aeyong

Notable people with this name include:

• Cho Tae-yong (born 1956), South Korean diplomat
• Kim Tae-yong (born 1969), South Korean film director
• Kim Taeyong (writer) (born 1974), South Korean writer
• Kim Tae-yong (director, born 1987), South Korean film director
• Shin Tae-yong (born 1970), South Korean footballer
• Taeyong (born Lee Tae-yong, 1995), South Korean singer, member of boy bands NCT and SuperM

See also

• List of Korean given names