Sang (Korean name)

Sang
Hangul
Hanja

Family/given:
: yet

Given name only:
: above
: always
: reward
: business
: mutual
: frost
: to think
: wound
: loss
: taste
: beautiful
: thorough
: auspicious
: elephant
: statue
: bed
: mulberry tree
: shape

: restitution
Revised Romanization Sang
McCune–Reischauer Sang

Sang is a rare Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean unisex given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

As a family name, Sang may be written with only one hanja, meaning "yet" or "still" . This family name has one bon-gwan: Mokcheon-eup (목천읍), Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do.[1] The 2000 South Korean census found 2,298 people with this family name.[2]

Given name

There are 35 hanja with the reading "sang" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; common ones are listed in the table at right.[3]

People with the single-syllable Korean given name Sang include:

Two names beginning with this syllable were popular names for newborn South Korean boys in the mid-20th century: Sang-chul (10th place in 1950) and Sang-hoon (9th place in 1960 and 1970).[4] Names containing this syllable include:

See also

References

  1. "한국성씨일람" [List of Korean family names]. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  2. "성씨인구분포데이터" [Family name population and distribution data]. South Korea: National Statistics Office. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
  3. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  4. "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
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