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Gender Feminine
Usage Korean
Scripts 초자(Korean Hangul) 硝子, etc.(Korean Hanja)
Other Forms FormsShōko (Japanese), Xiaozi (Chinese)
Meaning & History
From Sino-Korean 英 (cho) meaning "glass, crystal" and 子 (ja) meaning "child". Other hanja character combinations can form this name as well. Feminine names ending with the character 子 (a fashionable name suffix in Japan, read as -ko in Japanese) were popular in Korea during the period of Japanese rule (1910-1945). After liberation this name and others like it declined in popularity.