Gim vs Kim - What's the difference?
gim | kim | Alternative forms |
, a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
* 1901 , Chapter 1
used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
* 1926 , Show Boat , Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
* 1991 , Mao II , Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
), the most common Korean surname.
Kim is a alternative form of gim.
As an adjective gim
is neat; spruce.As a proper noun Kim is
a given name derived from surnames, a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.kim
English
Alternative forms
* Gim (Korean surname )Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim ’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
- Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born .
- It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim'. She has known girls named '''Kim''' since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain ' Kims .