Ji (Korean name)
Ji (Korean: 지), also spelled Jee, Chi, or Chee, is a Korean surname, as well as a Korean given name.
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 clan: 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]
Notable people with this family name include:
Ji
- Ji Chang-wook (born 1987), South Korean actor and singer
- Ji Cheong-cheon (1888–1959), Korean independence activist
- Ji Da-bin (born 2006), Indonesian footballer
- Ji Dong-won (born 1991), South Korean professional footballer
- Ji Eun-hee (born 1986), South Korean professional golfer
- Ji Eun-sung (born 1991), South Korean actor
- Ji Ha-yoon (born 1995), South Korean actress and model
- Ji Han-jae (born 1936), South Korean hapkido grandmaster
- Ji Hye-won (born 1998), South Korean actress
- Ji Hyun-woo (born 1984), South Korean actor and musician
- Ji Jin-hee (born 1971), South Korean actor
- Ji Kyeong-deuk (born 1990), South Korean footballer
- Ji Kyong-sun (born 1975), North Korean former judoka
- Ji Sang-jun (born 1973), South Korean retired swimmer
- Ji Sang-ryeol (born 1970), South Korean actor
- Ji Seo-yeon (born 2005), South Korean figure skater
- Ji Seong-ho (born 1982), South Korean politician
- Ji Seong-hwan (born 1974), South Korean field hockey player
- Ji Seung-hyun (born 1979), South Korean handball player
- Ji Seung-hyun (born 1981), South Korean actor
- Ji So-yun (born 1991), South Korean professional footballer
- Ji Yoon-ho (born Yoon Byung-ho, 1991), South Korean actor
- Ji Young-jun (born 1981), South Korean long distance runner
- Ji Yun-nam (born 1976), North Korean former professional footballer
Others
- Alexander Chee (fl. 2000s), American writer
- Ien Chi (born 1991), Korean American filmmaker
- 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
- Daniel Tji Hak-soun (1921–1993), South Korean Roman Catholic bishop
Given name
People with the given name Ji include:
See also
References
- ↑ "한국성씨일람" [List of Korean family names]. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Archived from the original on 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Таблица корейских поев Ти, Тигай, Тхай, Тхя, Тян, У, Угай, Хан". Korea Museum (in Russian).