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.
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.[1] The 2000 South Korean census found 147,572 people with this family name.[2]
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.[3] For the Koryo-saram from the former Soviet Union, it was spelled as Ti (Russian: Ти).[4]
List
People with this family name include:
Ji
Ji Chang-wook (born 1987), South Korean actor and singer
Chi In-jin (born 1973), South Korean former professional boxer
Jee Man-won (born 1942), South Korean political scientist and journalist
Jee Seok-jin (born 1966), South Korean entertainer
Jee Yong-ju (1948–1985), South Korean amateur boxer
Jhi Yeon-woo (born 1984), South Korean retired bodybuilder
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.[5] Many names containing this syllable have been popular throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including:[6][7][8]
As name element
Historically-popular given names formed with the syllable "ji" include:
Masculine
Ji-hoon (4th place in 1970, 1st place in 1980 and 1990, 2nd place in 2008, 3rd place in 2009, 8th place in 2011)
^"성씨인구분포데이터" [Family name population and distribution data]. South Korea: National Statistics Office. Archived from the original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
^성씨 로마자 표기 방안: 마련을 위한 토론회 [Plan for romanisation of surnames: a preparatory discussion]. National Institute of the Korean Language. 25 June 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
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