Hwa-young
Hangul
화영
Hanja
Examples: ,
Revised RomanizationHwayeong
McCune–ReischauerHwayŏng
IPA[ɸwa̠jʌ̹ŋ]

Hwa-young (화영) is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 15 hanja with the reading "hwa" and 34 hanja with the reading "young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1]

People with this name include:

Fictional characters with this name include:

  • Hwa-yeong, the protagonist of 1986 South Korean film Gilsoddeum

References

  1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF) (in Korean). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
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