Jeong-hyo

Jeong-hyo
Hangul	정효
Hanja	[(various)] Error: {{Lang}}: Latn text/non-Latn script subtag mismatch (help)
Revised Romanization	Jeonghyo
McCune–Reischauer	Chŏnghyo

Jeong-hyo, also spelled Jung-hyo, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

Hanja

There are 75 hanja with the reading "jeong" and 24 hanja with the reading "hyo" 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:

• 貞孝 (곧을 정 godeul jeong, 효도 효 hyodo hyo): "chaste and filial"
• 正孝 (바를 정 bareul jeong, 효도 효 hyodo hyo): "upright and filial"

People

People with this name include:

• Princess Jeonghyo of Balhae (d. 792), who is buried at the Mausoleum of Princess Jeonghyo
• Sinjong of Goryeo (1144–1204), posthumous name Jeonghyo, twentieth monarch of the Goryeo Dynasty
• Ahn Junghyo (born 1941), South Korean male novelist
• Lee Jung-hyo (born 1975), South Korean male football player

See also

• List of Korean given names

References

1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. Retrieved 8 October 2015.