How it is written
진 陳 Jin
Rank and people
Rank 39 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 186,310 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.37% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 진 can be written with more than one hanja.
陳 157,599 people write it with this hanja
- 陳 exhibit, state, relate
秦 19,301 people write it with this hanja
- 秦 Qin dynasty, name given to naturalized foreigners
晋 7,566 people write it with this hanja
- 晋 advanceKorean reading 진 · 10 strokes
陣 1,740 people write it with this hanja
- 陣 camp, battle array, ranks
眞 45 people write it with this hanja
- 眞 truth, reality, Buddhist sectKorean reading 진 · 10 strokes
蔯 14 people write it with this hanja
- 蔯 variety of artemisia
進 14 people write it with this hanja
- 進 advance, proceed, progressKorean reading 진 · 11 strokes
珍 13 people write it with this hanja
- 珍 rare, curious, strange
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Jin. McCune-Reischauer: Chin. Other spellings: Jhin, Jean, Gin, Chen, Jeen
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Sources and credits
- Ranking, population and share: Statistics Korea, 2015 census, 성씨·본관별 인구(5인 이상) - 전국 (population by surname and clan, nationwide), KOSIS table DT_1IN15SD.
- Romanization and spellings: English Wikipedia, "List of Korean surnames", revision 1373629782, by its contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: table reformatted and joined with Statistics Korea and EDRDG data.
- Hanja meanings: KANJIDIC2 (version 2026-272) from the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The EDRDG acknowledgement is at the foot of the page.
- Audio: synthetic speech from Google Cloud Text-to-Speech. See the about page.