Meaning of 연아

연아 (Yeon-Ah) means “graceful, beautiful · child” when written 娟兒. It is a common name for people born in the 1990s. Its characters carry the elements 土 Earth, 木 Wood, which matters when a name is chosen to balance a birth chart.

Other hanja spellings

• 연 can also be written 延 (to extend), 蓮 (lotus), 淵 (deep pool), 妍 (lovely)
• 아 can also be written 雅 (refined, elegant), 娥 (beautiful), 芽 (sprout), 亞 (next, second)

How to pronounce 연아

Revised Romanisation: yeona (yeon-a). The spelling most Koreans with this name use abroad: Yeon-Ah. Korean syllables have equal length — say each one evenly, no stress.

Famous people named 연아

• Kim Yuna (figure skater)