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Lee, I, or Yi (이) is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim (김). As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 7,306,828 people by this name in South Korea or 14.7% of the population. Historically, 李 was officially written as Ni (니) in Korea.
- 이 or 리, 李: plum, 이 only, 異: different, 伊: that
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It does not sound the same as the "Lee" (as Lee Myung-bak). The reason "Lee" was adopted instead of "Yi" is because of the English surname ("Lee") is more familiar to non-Koreans. Furthermore, non-Koreans pronounce "Yi" as "Yai" when reading the name, and often mistake Koreans as Chinese from the name when traveling or living abroad.
- The name is written in Hanja as 李 which is pronounced as Lǐ in Chinese. Wikipedia has some information on why the spelling Lee is so common Thou...
- There is ' 두음법칙 (First Initial Sound Rule / Law) ' in Korean: <언어> 일부 소리가 단어의 첫머리에 발음되는 것을 꺼려 다른 소리로 발음되는 일. ‘ㅣ, ㅑ, ㅕ, ㅛ, ㅠ’ 앞에서의 ‘ㄹ’과 ‘ㄴ’이 ‘ㅇ’이 되고...
- I always considered it an 'English distortion effect' when trying to nail down the sound from Korean to English as close as possible. Words in Eng...
- When I was teaching ESL in Korea, I asked one of my adult students about the last name 이, pronounced like the letter ' e' and why did they change t...
- 1) Note that there are Ye, Yi, Lee, Rhee etc for family name 이. But 98 percent use Lee (cf. user17915's answer) China : 리, Korean-writing : 리 and E...
Nov 15, 2013 · World. Kim, Park And Lee: Why Do Koreans Have So Few Surnames? By Palash Ghosh. 11/15/13 AT 10:47 AM EST. Kim Tae-hee, one of the tens of millions of Kims in Korea Wikipedia. The current...
example:*lee matches names which end with the sound lee. _ is a wildcard that will match exactly one letter in the pronunciation. example:__z matches names which have two letters and then a z. (s) matches exactly one syllable in the pronunciation. example:(s) (s)ra matches names which have two syllables and then the sound rah.
Lee is the typical romanization of the common South Korean surname I (Hangul 이), North Korean surname Ri (리). The name is written identically to the Chinese name Li 李 in Hanja characters. It is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind only Kim.
However, not all of the Kims, Lees, Parks, Jeongs, and Chois are the same. Korean names consist of two parts: a family name and a given name. Traditionally, a child takes their father’s surname like in many other cultures, but Korean women do not take their husband’s surname after marriage.
