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02-16-2010, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by komitsuki View Post
Yup. You explained it correctly. The "-soon" corresponds with "pure" in Hanja (Chinese characters).
I knew that something ending with 자 (ja) 子 in Korean females is Japanese style from colonial times, common among grandmothers. It would be Koreanized version of so many Japanese female names ending in -ko. Like Kyouko.

What would -soon correspond to in Japanese?
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