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'''Seong-ja''', also spelled '''Sung-ja''', is a Korean given name. Typically, "ja" is written with the hanja meaning "child" (子). Names ending with this hanja, such as Young-ja and Jeong-ja, were popular when Korea was under Japanese rule, but declined in popularity afterward.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2007032017291&sid=010620&nid=006<ype=1|title=가장 흔한 이름은? 男 영수→민준ㆍ女 영자→서연|trans-title=The most popular names? Boys: Young-su → Min-jun, girls: Young-ja → Seo-yeon|work=Korea Economic Daily|date=2007-03-20|accessdate=2012-12-04}}</ref> The hanja used to write the name Seong-ja also correspond to a number of different Japanese given names; for example, both 成子 and 聖子 can be read as the name Seiko.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi|first=Jim|last=Breen|authorlink=Jim Breen|title=Japanese Names Dictionary|publisher=Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group|year=2011|accessdate=2012-12-02|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121205062302/http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi|archivedate=2012-12-05}}</ref>
People with this name include:
*Seund Ja Rhee (1918–2009), South Korean expatriate artist in France *Shin Seong-Ja (born 1968), South Korean fencer *Park Sung-Ja (born 1980), South Korean judo practitioner
==See also== *List of Korean given names
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Category:Korean given names