Yoon-sung

Yoon-sung, also spelled Yun-seong, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used for each syllable. There are 15 hanja with the reading "yoon" and 27 hanja with the reading "sung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[1]

Yoon-sung
Hangul
윤성
Hanja
允成, 潤成, and others
Revised RomanizationYun-seong
McCune–ReischauerYunsŏng
IPA/junsʌ̹ŋ/

People with this name include:

  • Gang Yun-seong (died 1358), father of Queen Sindeok of the Joseon dynasty
  • Hong Yun-seong (1425–1475), Joseon dynasty general
  • Gaeko (born Kim Yoon-sung, 1981), South Korean rapper
  • K (singer) (born Kang Yoon-sung, 1983), South Korean pop singer
  • Jung Yoon-sung (born 1984), South Korean football forward
  • Kang Yun-seong (born 1997), South Korean football midfielder
  • Chung Yun-seong (born 1998), South Korean tennis player
  • Hwang Yun-seong (born 2000), South Korean trainee under Woollim Entertainment, contestant on Produce X 101

Fictional characters with this name include:

  • Hong Yun-seong, character in the Soul series of video games, introduced in the 2002 game Soulcalibur II
  • Lee Yoon-sung, character in the 2011 South Korean television series City Hunter

See also

References
  1. "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 31 October 2018.
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