How this is worked outHow this is calculated
The name game every Korean played at school
Write both names in Hangul and weave them together, one syllable from each in turn. Count the strokes in each syllable and keep the last digit; then add each pair of neighbours, keeping the last digit again, row after row, until two digits are left. Those two digits are the percentage.
Names in Latin letters are first written in Hangul, and so are Japanese names in kana (ゆい → 유이). Names in kanji are not counted — a kanji name has no single reading to trust.
A few rules govern the kana. ん becomes a final ㄴ under the syllable before it, and っ a final ㅅ; sounds written with a small ゃ, ゅ or ょ become a single syllable; and the long-vowel mark ー is not counted. Whether you add a family name is up to you, but it adds syllables and so changes the answer.
The stroke table, and why order matters
Consonants: ㄱ1, ㄴ1, ㄷ2, ㄹ3, ㅁ3, ㅂ4, ㅅ2, ㅇ1, ㅈ3, ㅊ4, ㅋ2, ㅌ3, ㅍ4, ㅎ3, doubled letters twice that. Vowels: ㅏ ㅓ ㅗ ㅜ are 2, ㅑ ㅕ ㅛ ㅠ are 3, ㅡ ㅣ are 1, ㅐ ㅔ are 3, and so on. Stroke counts differ a little from one schoolyard to the next; this is our table.
Whose name goes first changes the answer, just as it does on paper, so both directions are shown. A final "00" is read as a hundred.
A worked example: 민지 → 준호
Weaving 민지 (Minji) and 준호 (Junho) gives 민, 준, 지, 호. Their strokes are 5 for 민 (ㅁ3 + ㅣ1 + ㄴ1), 6 for 준, 4 for 지 and 5 for 호, so the first row reads 5, 6, 4, 5.
Adding neighbours and keeping the last digit: 5 + 6 = 11 gives 1, 6 + 4 = 10 gives 0, 4 + 5 = 9 gives 9, so the second row is 1, 0, 9. Once more and 1, 9 are left: nineteen percent. The result screen draws this same triangle, so the same sums on paper give the same number.
A game, played for fun
Adding strokes does not look into anyone's character. The sentences under the number come from text written for each score band.
Read the rules behind the readings that do use a chart →
