Chul (Korean name)

Chul
Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanization Cheol
McCune–Reischauer Ch'ŏl

Chul, also spelled Chol, is a single-syllable Korean masculine given name, as well as an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Hanja

There are 11 hanja with the reading "chul" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names, as well as variant forms of two of those hanja; they are:[1]

  1. (쇠 철 soe cheol): "iron"
    • (variant of above)
  2. (밝을 철 balgeul cheol): "bright", "keen"
    • (variant of above)
  3. (통할 철 tonghal cheol): "to penetrate"
  4. (맑을 철 malgeul cheol): "pure"
  5. (거둘 철 geodul cheol): "to harvest", "to achieve"
  6. (바퀴 자국 철 bakwi jaguk cheol): "wheel track"
  7. (엮을 철 yeokkeul cheol): "to weave"
  8. (볼록할 철 bollokhal cheol): "convex", "to protrude"
  9. (그칠 철 geuchil cheol): "to stop"
  10. (밝을 철 balgeul cheol): "wise"
  11. (눈 밝을 철 nun balgeul cheol): "sharp eyesight"

People

People with the given name Chul include:

As name element

In South Korea, some names ending with this element were popular for baby boys in the 1950s and 1960s, including Sang-chul, Byung-chul, and Young-chul.[2] Other Korean given names containing the element Chul include:

First syllable

Second syllable

 

See also

References

  1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  2. "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
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