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Hoon (Korean Name)
Hoon, also spelled Hun, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as a morpheme in many other Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja with which the name is written. Hanja There are 12 hanja with this reading, and two variant Chinese character, variant forms, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are: # (가르칠 훈 ''garuchil hun''): "to teach" # (공 훈 ''gong hun''): "merit" #* (variant of above) # (김 쐴 훈 ''gim ssoel hun''): "to dry ''Gim (food), gim''" # (불길 훈 ''bulgil hun''): "blaze" # (향풀 훈 ''hyangpul hun''): "basil" # (질나발 훈 ''jilnabal hun''): hun (instrument), a Korean wind instrument #* (variant of above) # (연기낄 훈 ''yeongikkil hun''): "smoke" # (금빛 투색할 훈 ''geumbit tusaekhal hun''): "faded gold colour" # (무리 훈 ''muri hun''): "faint" # (분홍빛 훈 ''bunhongbit hun''): "afterglow" #: "weld"Some dictionaries list this character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Given Name
A Korean name (Hangul: ; Hanja: ) consists of a family name followed by a given name, as used by the Korean people in both South Korea and North Korea. In the Korean language, ''ireum'' or ''seongmyeong'' usually refers to the family name (''seong'') and given name (''ireum'' in a narrow sense) together. Korean names are descended from Chinese names as part of Sino-Korean vocabulary. Traditional Korean family names typically consist of only one syllable. There is no middle name in the English language sense. Many Koreans have their given names made of a generational name syllable and an individually distinct syllable, though this practice is rarely seen nowadays. The generational name syllable is shared by siblings in North Korea, and by all members of the same generation of an extended family in South Korea. Married men and women keep their full personal names, and children inherit the father's family name unless otherwise settled when registering the marriage. The family nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
