Sunghee as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Sunghee

What is the meaning of the name Sunghee ?

The baby name Sunghee is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Korean: 성희 [sʌŋ.hi]; common romanizations: Seong-hui, Seong-hee, Sung-hee.

Sunghee is Korean in Origin.

Sunghee is a Korean given name built from two Sino-Korean syllables and written in Hangul as 성희 (Seong-hui) or 승희 (Seung-hui). Its meaning depends on the chosen hanja: 성 may be 成 ‘to achieve,’ 誠 ‘sincere,’ 聖 ‘sacred,’ or 星 ‘star,’ while 승 can be 勝 ‘victory,’ 昇 ‘to rise,’ or 承 ‘to inherit.’ The element 희 commonly uses 喜 ‘joy’ or 希 ‘hope/rare,’ yielding combinations such as ‘sincere joy,’ ‘rising brightness,’ or ‘victorious hope.’

Used across the twentieth century to the present, Sunghee functions as a unisex name but trends feminine in modern South Korea. Two-syllable Sino-Korean names like Sunghee remain popular at home and in the Korean diaspora. Romanization yields many variants: Sung-hee and Sunghee are common; Seung-hee/Seunghee correspond to 승희, while Seong-hee/Seonghui correspond to 성희. In formal systems, 희 is rendered hui (Revised Romanization) or hŭi (McCune–Reischauer). Nicknames often shorten to Hee or Sung.

⚙ Sunghee is far from common. In all, it turns up just 32 times, across 13 countries.