Hoon (Korean name)

Hoon
Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanization Hun
McCune–Reischauer Hun

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 on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names, as well as variant forms; they are:[1]

  1. (가르칠 훈 garuchil hun): "to teach"
  2. (공 훈 gong hun): "merit"
    • (variant of above)
  3. (김 쐴 훈 gim ssoel hun): "to dry laver"
  4. (불길 훈 bulgil hun): "blaze"
  5. (향풀 훈 hyangpul hun): "basil"
  6. (질나발 훈 jilnabal hun): a Korean wind instrument
    • (variant of above)
  7. (연기낄 훈 yeongikkil hun): "smoke"
  8. (금빛 투색할 훈 geumbit tusaekhal hun): "faded gold colour"
  9. (무리 훈 muri hun): "faint"
  10. (분홍빛 훈 bunhongbit hun): "afterglow"
  11. : "weld"[2]
  12. (향풀 훈 hyangpul hun): "basil"

People

People with the single-syllable given name Hoon include:

As name element

From the 1960s to the 1980s, a number of given names containing this morpheme were among the top ten most popular names for newborn boys in South Korea:[3]

Given names containing this morpheme include:

See also

References

  1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. p. 51. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  2. Some dictionaries list this character as binnal hwi (빛날 휘) and haenmuri un (햇무리 운), but with no reading hun; for example see "煇". Naver Hanja Dictionary. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
  3. "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  4. 이진희 (Yi Jin-hui) (2009-01-28). "너도 민준이니… 어! 또 서연이야". Hankook Ilbo. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
  5. "남자 → '민준' 여자 → '서연' 가장 많아". Law Times. 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
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