Moon (Korean name)

Moon
Hangul
Hanja

Family/given:

Given name only:

Revised Romanization Mun
McCune–Reischauer Mun

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

Family name

As a family name, Moon is written with one hanja, meaning "writing" (; 글월 문 geulwon mun). The 2000 South Korean census found a total of 426,927 people and 132,881 households with this family name. They identified with 47 different surviving bon-gwan (origin of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of the clan members):[1]

In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 73.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Moon in their passports, while another 26.4% spelled it as Mun.[3]

Given name

Hanja

There are 14 hanja with the reading Moon on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:[4]

  1. (문 문 mun mun): "gate"
  2. (물을 문 mureul mun): "to ask"
  3. (들을 문 teureul mun): "to listen"
  4. (글월 문 geulwon mun): "writing"
  5. (물 이름 문 mul ireum mun): the name of a body of water
  6. (따뜻할 문 ddaddeuthal mun): "warm"
  7. (무늬 문 munui mun): "design", "pattern"
  8. (들 문 deul mun): plural marker for people
  9. (목 벨 문 mok bel mun): "to decapitate"
  10. (입술 문 ipsul mun): "lips", "to kiss"
  11. (어지러울 문 eojireoul mun, 문란할 문 munnanhal mun): "dizziness", "disorder"
  12. (모기 문 mogi mun): "mosquito"
  13. (구름 무늬 문 gureum munui mun): "cloudy"
  14. (닦을 문 dakkeul mun): "to polish"

People

People with the single-syllable given name Moon include:

As name element

Korean names containing the element Moon include:

See also

References

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