Soo (Korean name)

Soo
Hangul 수
Hanja

Family/given
水洙

Given name only
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瓍宿汓㻽
Revised Romanization Su
McCune–Reischauer Su

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

Family name

As a family name, Soo may be written with two different hanja, one meaning "water" (水; 물 수), and the other meaning "shore" or "bank" (洙; 물가 수). The former has two bon-gwan, including Gangneung, Gangwon-do in what is today South Korea. The latter has one bon-gwan, Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do, also in what is today South Korea.[1] The 2000 South Korean census found 199 people with these family names.[2]

Given name

There are 67 hanja with the reading "soo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. 66 are listed in the table at right (one is not included due to encoding issues).[3]

People with the given name Soo include:

Korean names which begin with this element include:

Korean names which end with this element 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] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
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