Ki-jung, also spelled Kee-chung, Ki-jeong, or Gi-jung, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the
hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 68 hanja with the reading "ki" and 75 hanja with the reading "
jung" 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:
Sohn Kee-chung (1914–2002), Korean Olympic marathon runner of the Japanese colonial period, later a South Korean coach
^"인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF) (in Korean). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
^His given name is different than the one which is the topic of this article; it is pronounced [kid͡ʑuŋ], with a
closed rather than
open-mid back unrounded vowel in the second syllable.
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