Soya 소야

Soya is a Korean given name, most often given to girls. In hangul it is written 소야. Like most Korean names it can also be written in hanja, and the characters chosen decide what it means — the same sound can be written 980 different ways.

Other spellings

The same name is romanized in several ways: Soya, So-ya. They are all 소야.

Five Elements (Ohaeng)

In Korean naming tradition each syllable carries an element, decided by the consonant it starts with. This is what a name sounds like in terms of energy.

  • 소 (starts with ㅅ)→Metalclarity, resolve, refinement
  • 야 (starts with ㅇ)→Earthsteadiness, trust, holding things together

Hanja used for Soya

These are hanja characters legally registrable for each syllable, with their dictionary meanings. A parent picks one character per syllable, and that combination becomes the written meaning of the name.

소70 characters can be used

  • 素original, white본디 소/흴 소
  • 小small작을 소
  • 昭bright밝을 소
  • 笑laughter웃음 소
  • 蘇perilla차조기 소
  • 所place, what바 소
  • 疏communicate소통할 소
  • 少few, young적을 소/젊을 소

야14 characters can be used

  • 若prajna반야 야
  • 也잇기, particle잇기 야/어조사 야
  • 夜chestnut밤 야
  • 野field들 야
  • 耶exclamatory particle어조사 야
  • 惹attract이끌 야
  • 冶bellows풀무 야
  • 若prajna반야 야

Names sharing a syllable

Soya belongs to someone else. Yours is drawn from your own birth chart — the four pillars of your birth date and hour decide which elements your name should carry.

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