Entry № 4395 · Korean origin

Hwang Jini Hwang Jini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WONG JEE-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Joseon courtesan-poet (greatest gisaeng)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "joseon courtesan-poet (greatest gisaeng)".

Hwang Jini (黃眞伊, c. 1506-c. 1567) was the most famous gisaeng (courtesan-artist) of the Joseon dynasty — celebrated for her beauty, intelligence, calligraphy, music, and sijo poetry (the classical Korean short verse). Her surviving sijo are among the finest works in Korean literature, and her wit was said to have humbled the greatest scholars of her age.

Joseon courtesan-poet. Her sijo are among the finest works in Korean literature.

The name in its native script.

黃眞伊
Transliteration
Hwang Jini
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɒŋ ˈdʒiː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hwang Jini stands.

Hwang Jini does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hwang Jinis before her.

Real people
Hwang Jini
Joseon gisaeng poet.
c. 1506 – c. 1567
In fiction
Hwang Jini
KBS drama starring Ha Ji-won.
2006

Names connected to Hwang Jini.

The number behind Hwang Jini.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hwang Jini reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.