What is the meaning of my name?

Before reading that..

I wrote this journal last quater for Socialoge class. While filling out the sheet, I received the same question about that; what's the meaning of my name?
In fact, after handing in this journal, I couldn't have/make my English name because on the first paragraph, I wrote that "I like my name so I want you to call me my name exactly" Sometimes, my friends have suffered from pronounciation of my name, and I'm sorry about that. You can call me just Jin, it's ok.

If you have Korean font, you can see my Korean name; 현진
I like it.



What’s the meaning of my name?

My first name is Hyunjin. I know that the pronunciation of “Hyun” is difficult to say, so if you want to call my name easily, just call me Jin. However, I like my name and want you to call my name exactly.

My name has Chinese characters, which are ideograms. Hyun (賢) means gentle and kindhearted, and Jin (眞) means truth or to become true. Because of their good meaning, that name is popular in Korea and is gender neutral. As you know, in class, one man from Korea has same name as me.

My grandfather granted that name to me. He made my name following the principle of Yin (陰) and Yang (陽), and “The law of 5 elements” that matched with my birthday and arranged each letter’s order.

I don’t remember the laws completely. Maybe according to Eastern philosophers, my birthday contains element water (水). To improve and help the water’s ability, I need the element gold (金). My name in Chinese characters has shellfish (貝). For a long time, we used the shellfish as cash, so it’s related to gold.

Definitely, I don’t choose my name. When I write to someone’s homepage board, I use pseudonym. But those facts don’t mean that I don’t like my name. I like it, so if you call me “Hyunjin” I will be very happy.