Moon (Korean name)

Moon
Hangul 문
Hanja

Family/given:
門文

Given name only:
問聞汶炆紋們刎吻紊蚊

雯抆
Revised Romanization Mun
McCune–Reischauer Mun

Moon, also spelled Mun, is a Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

As a family name, Moon may be written with either of two hanja, one meaning "gate" (門; 문 문 mun mun) and the other meaning "writing" (文; 글월 문 geulwon mun). The first has one bon-gwan in what is today South Korea: Incheon. The second has three: Gamcheon-myeon, Yecheon County, Gyeongsangbuk-do; Nampyeong (南平), in what is today Daegu; and Jeongseon County, Gangwon-do.[1] The 2000 South Korean census estimated that 426,927 people had these family names.[2]

Given name

Hanja

There are 14 hanja with the reading Moon on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:[3]

  1. 門 (문 문 mun mun): "gate"
  2. 問 (물을 문 mureul mun): "to ask"
  3. 聞 (들을 문 teureul mun): "to listen"
  4. 文 (글월 문 geulwon mun): "writing"
  5. 汶 (물 이름 문 mul ireum mun): the name of a body of water
  6. 炆 (따뜻할 문 ddaddeuthal mun): "warm"
  7. 紋 (무늬 문 munui mun): "design", "pattern"
  8. 們 (들 문 deul mun): plural marker for people
  9. 刎 (목 벨 문 mok bel mun): "to decapitate"
  10. 吻 (입술 문 ipsul mun): "lips", "to kiss"
  11. 紊 (어지러울 문 eojireoul mun, 문란할 문 munnanhal mun): "dizziness", "disorder"
  12. 蚊 (모기 문 mogi mun): "mosquito"
  13. 雯 (구름 무늬 문 gureum munui mun): "cloudy"
  14. 抆 (닦을 문 dakkeul mun): "to polish"

People

People with the single-syllable given name Moon include:

As name element

Korean names containing the element Moon include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "한국성씨일람" [List of Korean family names]. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  2. ↑ "성씨인구분포데이터" [Family name population and distribution data]. South Korea: National Statistics Office. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
  3. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names]. South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.