How to write “Kim” in Korean

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What Korean friends call you

• 킴아 ki-ma — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 킴 씨 kim-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Kim

• 킴 68 (100%)

Korean labels of 68 people named Kim on Wikidata (English-speaking countries), October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

Well-known people named Kim, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Kim Clijsters — 킴 클레이스터르스
• Kim Campbell — 킴 캠벨
• Kim Novak — 킴 노백
• Kim Cattrall — 킴 캐트럴

132,804 babies were named Kim in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 337th most common name.

Block by block

• 킴 = ㅋ + ㅣ + ㅁ · 6 strokes
  • ㅋ 키읔 (k) · 2 strokes
  • ㅣ 이 (i) · 1 stroke
  • ㅁ 미음 (m) · 3 strokes

  Also in 킴: Kimberly 킴벌리

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