Ji (Korean name)

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Ji
Hangul 지
Hanja Family/given:

池: pond
智: wisdom

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
Revised Romanization Ji
McCune–Reischauer Chi

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]

People with this family name include:

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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.[4] Many names containing this syllable have been popular throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including:[5][6][7]

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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)
  • Ji-hu (2nd place in 2009, 7th place in 2011)
Feminine
  • Eun-ji (3rd place in 1990)
  • Min-ji (4th place in 1990)
  • Ji-eun (4th place in 1980, 2nd place in 1990)
  • Ji-hye (1st place in 1980 and 1990)
  • Ji-hyun (10th place in 1990)
  • Ji-min (3rd place in 2008, 6th place in 2009 and 2011)
  • Ji-woo (8th place in 2008, 4th place in 2009, 5th place in 2011)
  • Ji-yeon (7th place in 1980)
  • Ji-yoon (9th place in 2011)
  • Ji-young (1st place in 1970, 3rd place in 1980, 10th place in 1990)

Other names containing this syllable include:

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First syllable
Second syllable

People with the single-syllable given name Ji include:

  • Shin Ji (born 1981 as Lee Jee-seon), South Korean singer and lyricist

See also

References

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