Chae-won

This article is about the unisex given name spelled Chae-won in the Revised Romanization of Korean. For the Korean unisex given name (재원) spelled Chaewŏn in the McCune–Reischauer system, see Jae-won.

Chae-won is a Korean unisex given name, predominantly feminine. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 18 hanja with the reading "chae"^[1] and 47 hanja with the reading "won"^[2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Chae-won was the seventh-most-popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 2013.^[3][4]

Chae-won

Pronunciation	/tʃæ.wʌn/
Gender	Unisex
Origin
Word/name	Korean
Meaning	different depending on Hanja

Chae-won
Hangul	채원
Hanja	采元, 彩原, 彩媛 and others
Revised Romanization	Chae-won
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'aewŏn
IPA	[tɕʰɛwʌn]

People

People with this name include:

• Lee Chae-won (born 1981), South Korean cross-country skier
• Moon Chae-won (born 1986), South Korean actress
• So Chae-won (born 1997), South Korean archer
• Kim Chaewon (born 2000), South Korean singer

Fictional characters

Fictional characters with this name include:

• Min Chae-won, in 2013 South Korean television series A Hundred Year Legacy

See also

• List of Korean given names