Korean-Japanese Personal Names

Korean-Japanese Personal Names

Covers over two million entries

Covers both Korean and non-Korean names

Various attributes such as gender and romanization

Overview

CJKI’s Korean-Japanese Database of Personal Names (KJN) is a bilingual dictionary that covers Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Western personal names. KJN includes romanized equivalents in all major romanization systems as well as hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean) for most Korean personal 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-Japanese Personal Names

Practical Applications

KEN is used by some of the world’s major IT companies for a wide variety of applications, such as:

Machine translation

Morphological analysis

Input method editors (IME)

Information retrieval

Electronic dictionaries

Named-entity recognition (NER)

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