Hye-bin

Hye-bin

Pronunciation	Korean pronunciation: [h^(j)ebin]
Gender	Feminine
Language(s)	Korean
Origin
Region of origin	Korea

Hye-bin
Hangul	혜빈
Hanja	慧彬 and others
Revised Romanization	Hyebin
McCune–Reischauer	Hye-bin

Hye-bin is a Korean feminine given name. Its meanings depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

Hanja and meaning

There are 16 hanja with the reading "hye" and 25 hanja with the reading "bin" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[1] Some ways of writing this name in hanja include:

• 慧彬 (슬기로울 혜; seulgiroul hye; 빛날 빈; binnal bin): "intelligent and refined"

Historically, Hye-bin (惠嬪) was a title for concubines of the first rank during the Joseon dynasty, for example King Sejong the Great's concubine Hye-bin Yang [ko] or King Injong's concubine Hye-bin Jeong.[2] Such titles can be distinguished from the given name because they are placed before the surname rather than after it.

People

People with this name include:

• Jeon Hye-bin (born 1983), South Korean actress and singer

Fictional characters

Fictional characters with this name include:

• Jang Hye-bin, from the 2011 South Korean television series A Thousand Kisses

See also

• List of Korean given names
• Korean name

References

1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
2. 신명호 [Sin Myeong-ho] (December 2013). 《조선왕실 왕비와 후궁의 생활》 [The Lives of Queens and Concubines in the Joseon Royal Court]. National Palace Museum of Korea. pp. 72, 93. Retrieved 19 August 2018 – via National Library of Korea.^[permanent dead link‍]