Korean-Chinese Personal Names
Covers over two million entries
Covers Korean and non-Korean names
Various attributes such as gender and romanization
Overview
CJKI’s Korean-Chinese Database of Personal Names (KCN) is a bilingual dictionary that covers Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Western personal names. KCN includes pinyin reading for Chinese names, all major romanization systems, as well as hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean) for most Korean names.
This data was compiled on the basis of precise transcription and transliteration rules, and verified by our Korean editors. It supports the Revised Romanization of Korean, the latest standard published by the Korean government in 2000.
Korean-Chinese Personal Names
Practical Applications
KCN is used by some of the world’s major IT companies for a wide variety of applications, such as:
Machine translation
Electronic dictionaries
Morphological analysis
Information retrieval
Input method editors (IME)
Named-entity recognition (NER)
Related Resources
Korean-English Personal Names
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Chinese-Japanese Personal Names
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