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Jae (Korean name)

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Hangul
  

McCune–Reischauer
  
Chae

Revised Romanization
  
Jae

Hanja
  
才: "talent" 財: "wealth" 栽: "cultivate" 再: "again"

Jae is a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as element in two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are twenty hanja with this reading on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; common ones are listed in the table at right.

People with the single-syllable given name Jae include:

  • Gil Jae (1353–1419), Goryeo and early Joseon Dynasty neo-Confucian scholar
  • Hur Jae (born 1965), South Korean footballer
  • Names which begin with this syllable include:

    Names which end with this syllable include:

  • Eun-jae
  • Han-jae
  • Min-jae
  • Seung-jae
  • Sung-jae
  • Won-jae
  • References

    Jae (Korean name) Wikipedia