EPTKorean names - Page 2
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Parabola
Korea (South)111 Posts
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imBLIND
United States2626 Posts
Usually, kids in the same family will share the surname and the generation name and only have different first names. | ||
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seRapH
United States9775 Posts
On August 16 2010 06:08 imBLIND wrote: I don't know if korean names work the same way chinese names do, but most asian people i know have a surname, a generation name, and the 'first' name. Usually, kids in the same family will share the surname and the generation name and only have different first names. yes it works the same way. as does japanese names. not sure about southeast asian names, though. no idea how those work | ||
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Kyuukyuu
Canada6263 Posts
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SanguineToss
Canada815 Posts
the korean name is very unique ( just like any other name) and has great meaning within each charachter. Usually there are three characters. [ X ] [ Y] [ Z ] again, there could be more but it is very common for their to be just 3. X = the last name, i.e. Kim, , Lee, Park etc Y and Z = These are the two other places for charachters. You pretty much as a korean parent put anything you want in there that doesn't sound stupid. ( im sorry i dont know how to explain this because im not a korean parent and dont really know whats stupid and whats not) what is really common is putting names from han mun which is the chinese charachters which mean something... sorry its not a good explanation i know. there are a lot of 'combinations' you can make out of these two name boxes. You can even flip Y and Z around, again in the discretion of the parent. so in the end every parent names their child something like X= Lim Y= Yo Z= Hwan = Lim Yo Hwan the emperor is born | ||
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