#fun fact: hanja anthroponymy is popular with couples!

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which sites do you use for names?

i'm sorry 😣 i came up with all the names myself! i use the naver hanja dictionary to look up the characters, but for each name i used elements of chinese anthroponymy, which utilizes strokes, order of characters, and the elements of nature to come up with significant/meaningful names.

for example, jinwol's full name is 여진월 or 余眞月 which is the na yeo (余) as in the "yeo which means i", jin (眞) for truth (eumhun is cham jin) and wol (月) for moon. the jin (眞) character is a common syllable – if you look at the family members i've mentioned before like his father, yeo jinhak and and his great-uncle, the sword saint yeo jinhu, they all share the jin (眞) character. this is typically seen in taoist names of members of the same generation of a family or clan and can be given from master to disciple, but the yeo clan uses the common syllable to denote members of the main family.

i can do a more detailed breakdown on how i come up with names if you want to make one for your mc! i think it's a really fun practice hehe