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Gye-sun계순

Gye-sun brings together “cassia tree” and “gentle.” Like your name, you are someone who is as fragrant as the cassia tree and finds life gentle and smooth.

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:

HanjaMeaning
桂順桂 ‘cassia tree’ + 順 ‘gentle’
桂(계수나무 계) + 順(순할 순)
桂純桂 ‘cassia tree’ + 純 ‘pure’
桂(계수나무 계) + 純(순수할 순)
桂淳桂 ‘cassia tree’ + 淳 ‘honest and simple’
桂(계수나무 계) + 淳(순박할 순)

Who it's given to

Gye-sun is mostly a girl's name.

How to say and write it

Revised Romanization: Gye-sun. Say it like gyeh-soon.

계ㄱ + ㅖ
순ㅅ + ㅜ + ㄴ

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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