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

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