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Cho-i초이
Cho-i brings together “beginning” and “joyful.” Like your name, you are someone who keeps the joy of new beginnings and lives a joyful life.
Meaning and hanja
Korean names are usually written with Chinese characters (hanja) chosen for their meaning, so one name can be spelled several ways. Common spellings:
| Hanja | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 初怡 | 初 ‘beginning’ + 怡 ‘joyful’ 初(처음 초) + 怡(기쁠 이) |
| 初伊 | 初 ‘beginning’ + 伊 ‘that one (he/she)’ 初(처음 초) + 伊(저 이) |
- Joy
Who it's given to
Cho-i is mostly a girl's name.
How to say and write it
Revised Romanization: Cho-i. Say it like choh-ee.
초ㅊ + ㅗ
이ㅇ + ㅣ
Each Hangul syllable is a block: first consonant, vowel, then any final consonant. See the stroke order animated in the app.
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