For example, the hanja 辛 (sin or shin, meaning sour or hot) appears prominently on packages of Shin Ramyun noodles.
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Hanja are often also used as a form of shorthand in newspaper headlines, advertisements, and on signs, for example the banner at the funeral for the sailors lost in the sinking of ROKS Cheonan (PCC-772).
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They include 畓 (논 답; non dap; "paddyfield"), 乭 (Dol, a character only used in given names), 㸴 (So, a rare surname from Seongju), and 怾 (Gi, an old name of the Kumgangsan).
HLKV-AM (Hangul : MBC 중파라디오 Hanja : MBC 中波放送) also known as MBC 900AM is a general (News, Current affairs, Sports, Drama and K-pop) radio station of the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation.
Reflecting its reformist bent, the Hwangseong sinmun published in a mixture of Hanja and native Korean script.
Moon Shin(in Hangul:문신, in Hanja:文信, January 16, 1923 ~ May 24, 1995) was a South Korean painter and sculptor whose childhood name was Moon ahn-shin.
The Pohang class (Korean: 포항급, Hanja: 浦項級) corvette is a class of general purpose vessels operated by the Republic of Korea Navy.
The P'okp'ung-ho or spelled Pokpung-ho (Chosŏn'gŭl: 폭풍호; Hanja: 暴風虎), which means "Storm Tiger" in Korean, is a North Korean main battle tank developed in the 1990s.
She died in 1808, on the seventeenth day of the fifth lunar month in the eighth year of the reign of King Sunjo of Joseon, in Paju (Hangul: 파주, Hanja: 坡州).
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Princess Hwawan (Hangul: 화완옹주, Hanja: 和缓翁主) (9 March 1738 - 10 June 1808) was a Joseon princess and the third daughter of King Yeongjo of Joseon.
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The couple also had one adoptive son, Jeong Hugyeom (Hangul: 정후겸, Hanja: 鄭厚謙) (1749-1776).
The first record of this poem is in Hanja but authorities are uncertain as to whether it was originally written in Hanja characters or first composed in Korean and then later translated.
Yeon Ja-yu (Hangul: 연자유, Hanja: 淵子遊, ?-?) was the Magniji (Prime Minister) of Goguryeo during its waning days, and was the grandfather of Yeon Gaesomun, who was Dae Magniji and dictator of Goguryeo before its fall.
Yoon Jang-ho (Hangul: 윤장호; Hanja: 尹章豪; September 21, 1980 – February 27, 2007) was a staff sergeant (posthumous) serving as an English translator in Afghanistan as a member of the Task Force Dasan, a dispatched engineering unit of the Republic of Korea Army.
Hanja, the Chinese characters sometimes used in modern written Korean
Aphae Bridge(in Hangul:압해대교, in Hanja:押海大橋) connects Mokpo and Aphae island of Sinan county of South Jeolla province, South Korea.
It opened on December 29, 2004 and the name was Sendai-ro Road(Hangul : 센다이로, Hanja or Japanese : 仙臺路), to celebrate forming a sister city between Gwangju, Korea and Sendai, Japan.
Choi Chung-Min (Hangul: 최정민, Hanja: 崔貞敏, 30 August 1930 – 8 August 1983) is a retired South Korean football player and football manager.
Heishui Mohe (Hanja/Hanzi: 黑水靺鞨;; pinyin: Hēishuǐ Mòhé; Hangul: 흑수말갈; RR: Heuksu Malgal) roughly between the north of Hejiang Province (Shuangyashan, Jiamusi, Hegang and Yichun) and the south of actual Khabarovsk Krai (Bikin, Vyazemsky, Lazo and Khabarovsk neighbourhood).
Hwan-Kil Yuh (Hangul: 류환길, Hanja: 柳煥吉) (September 23, 1962 – April 21, 2009) was a boxer from South Korea.
150 Joseon musketeers, along with 3,000 Manchus, met Russian army at the Battle of Hutong (Hangul : 호통 Hanja : 好通), present-day Yilan), which was won by the Qing-Joseon allied forces.
Kaesong, North Hwanghae, North Korea, whose Hanja name, when transliterated into Mandarin, is Kaicheng
Kim Hyun-Hui (Chosŏn'gŭl: 김현희, Hanja: 金賢姬; born January 27, 1962), also known as Ok Hwa, is a former North Korean agent, responsible for the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing in 1987, which killed 115 people.
Wang (Hangul: 왕; Hanja: 王), or king, was a Chinese royal style used in many states rising from the dissolution of Gojoseon, Buyeo, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla and Goryeo.
Namsan or Nam-san, literally "South Mountain" (Korean- Hangul: 남산 Hanja: 南山) is a common name for Korean mountains and hills.
Lady Lee of the Jeonju Lee clan (Hangul: 전주 이씨, Hanja: 全州 李氏); sixth daughter of Yi Jeong-han (Hangul: 이정한, Hanja: 李挺漢) (25 September 1601 – 30 August 1671), a member of the Joseon royal family
Queen Munjeong (Hangul: 문정왕후, Hanja: 文定王后) (1 February 1502 – 29 December 1565) was the wife of King Jungjong of Joseon.
Republic of Korea Air Force Education and Training Command (AFETC, Hangul: 공군 교육사령부, Hanja: 空軍 敎育司令部), located in Jinju, was established 1973.
Its name means "three stars" and is the same characters as used (when using hanja) to write the tradename Samsung.
Shin Ki-ha (Korean Hangul: 신기하, Hanja: 辛基夏, RR: Sin Gi-ha, M-R: Sin Kiha, died on August 6, 1997), was a four-term South Korean lawmaker and former parliamentary leader of National Congress for New Politics.
The Temple of King Dongmyeong (Hangul: 동명왕 신사, Hanja: 東明王 神祠), also known as the Temple of Jumong (Hangul: 주몽사, Hanja: 朱蒙祠), was a shamanistic temple dedicated to King Dongmyeong of Goguryeo, the founder of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.
It is called iwatake (kanji: 岩茸 or 石茸) in Japanese and seogi (hangul: 석이; hanja: 石耳; literally "stone ear" or "rock ear") in Korean.
Idu script, archaic writing system which represents the Korean language using hanja
There are 15 hanja with the reading "Yoon" and 27 hanja with the reading "Sung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.
The role she got her pseudonym from was Zyra, an Albanian old-woman with old traditions, Zet’hanja, a police woman, Tetka Dragica, a Serbian Kosovar old-woman from Graçanica complaining about living with Albanians, and many others.