Hangul 지 McCune–Reischauer Chi | Revised Romanization Ji | |
Hanja Family/given:
池: pond
智: wisdom
Given name only:
只: only
支: branch
枝: branch
止: stop
之: to go to
知: to know
地: earth
指: to point
志: intention
至: to arrive
紙: paper
持: hold
誌: to record
遲: late | ||
Ji, also spelled Jee, Chi, or Chee, is a Korean family name, as well as a popular element in Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
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Family name
As a family name, Ji may be written with either of two hanja, one meaning "wisdom" (智), and the other meaning "pond" (池). Each has one bon-gwan: for the family name meaning "wisdom", Pongju Village, Pongsan County, North Hwanghae in what is today North Korea, and for the family name meaning "pond", Chungju, Chungcheongbuk-do in what is today South Korea. The 2000 South Korean census found 147,572 people with this family name.
In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 79.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Ji in their passports. Another 9.0% spelled it as Jee, and 8.5% as Chi. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 3.0%) included Gi, Chee, Je, and Jy.
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People with this family name include:
Given name
There are 46 hanja with the reading "ji" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Some common ones are listed in the table at right. Many names containing this syllable have been popular throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including:
Names
Given names formed with the syllable "Ji" as part of their given names include:
Other names containing this syllable include:
People
People with the single-syllable given name Ji include: