How it is written
정 鄭 Jeong
Rank and people
Rank 4 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 2,407,601 people carry the surname in hangul, 4.84% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 정 can be written with more than one hanja.
鄭 2,151,879 people write it with this hanja
- 鄭 an ancient Chinese provinceKorean reading 정 · 15 strokes
丁 243,803 people write it with this hanja
- 丁 street, ward, town
程 11,683 people write it with this hanja
- 程 extent, degree, law
政 139 people write it with this hanja
- 政 politics, government
定 29 people write it with this hanja
- 定 determine, fix, establish
正 22 people write it with this hanja
- 正 correct, justice, righteous
情 5 people write it with this hanja
- 情 feelings, emotion, passion
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Jeong. McCune-Reischauer: Chŏng. Other spellings: Jung, Chung, Joung, Chong, Cheong
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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.