Hwan (name)

Hwan
Hangul 환
Hanja

Family name
桓

Given name
Various
Revised Romanization Hwan
McCune–Reischauer Hwan

Hwan is a rare Korean family name, as well as an element in Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

As a family name, Hwan is written with only one hanja, the Sino-Korean name of the Sapindus mukorossi tree (桓; 굳셀 환 gutsel hwan). The 2000 South Korean census found 157 people with this family name.[1]

Given name

Hanja

There are 21 hanja with the reading "hwan" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:[2][3]

  1. 歡 (기쁠 환 gibbeul hwan): "happiness"
  2. 患 (근심 환 geunsim hwan): "anxiety"
  3. 丸 (둥글 환 dung-geul hwan): "round"
  4. 換 (바꿀 환 baggul hwan): "to change"
  5. 環 (고리 환 gori hwan): "ring"
  6. 還 (돌아올 환 doraol hwan): "to return"
  7. 喚 (부를 환 bureul hwan): "to summon"
  8. 奐 (빛날 환 bitnal hwan): "to shine"
  9. 渙 (흩어질 환 heuteojil hwan): "to be scattered"
  10. 煥 (불꽃 환 bulggot hwan): "blaze"
  11. 煥 (환할 환 hwanhal hwan)
  12. 幻 (헛보일 환 heotboil hwan): "illusion"
  13. 桓 (굳셀 환 gutsel hwan): Sapindus mukorossi
  14. 鐶 (고리 환 gori hwan): "ring"
  15. 驩 (기뻐할 환 gibbeohal hwan): "to rejoice"
  16. 宦 (벼슬 환 byeoseul hwan): "government officials"
  17. 紈 (흰 비단 환 hoen bidan hwan): "white silk"
  18. 鰥 (환어 환 hwaneo hwan): a kind of fish
    • (홀아버지 환 heutabeoji hwan): "bachelor"
  19. 圜 (두를 환 dureul hwan): "to wrap around"
  20. 皖 (환할 환 hwanhal hwan)
  21. 洹 (세차게 흐를 환 sechage heureul hwan): "to flow violently"

As name element

One name containing this element, Young-hwan, was the 9th-most popular name for newborn South Korean boys in 1950.[4] Other names containing this element include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "성씨인구분포데이터" [Family name population and distribution data]. South Korea: National Statistics Office. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
  2. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  3. ↑ 유니코드 한자사전. National Library of the Republic of Korea. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
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