창씨개명

Korean

Examples
金山(かねやま)錫源(しゃくげん) Kaneyama Shakugen Kim Suk-won 高木(たかぎ)正雄(まさお) Takagi Masao Park Chung Hee 金本(かねもと)元一(げんいち) Kanemoto Gen'ichi Kim Jae-gyu 梅原(うめはら)圭一(けいいち) Umehara Keiichi Choi Kyu-hah

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 創氏改名, an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 創氏改名(そうしかいめい) (Sōshi kaimei).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ɕʰa̠(ː)ŋɕ͈iɡɛmjʌ̹ŋ] ~ [ˈt͡ɕʰa̠(ː)ŋɕ͈iɡe̞mjʌ̹ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [창(ː)씨개명/창(ː)씨게명]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	Changssigaemyeong
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	Changssigaemyeong
McCune–Reischauer?	Ch'angssigaemyŏng
Yale Romanization?	chāngssikaymyeng

Proper noun

창씨개명 • (Changssigaemyeong) (hanja 創氏改名)

1. (historical) A 1939 Japanese government policy applied to then Korean colony which forced Koreans to change their surnames to Japanese-style surnames; abolished in 1945.

   Synonym: 일본식 성명 강요 (ilbon-sik seongmyeong gang'yo, literally “forced adoption of Japanese-style names”)