Soo-young (name)

Sooyoung
Pronunciation Soo-young (/sʰujʌ̹ŋ/)
Gender Both (feminine)
Origin
Word/name Korean
Meaning Different depending on hanja
Soo-young
Hangul 수영
Hanja , , , , and others
Revised Romanization Su-yeong
McCune–Reischauer Suyŏng
Not to be confused with So-young.

Soo-young, also spelled Su-yeong or Su-young, is a Korean given name, that is a unisex name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 67 hanja with the reading "soo" and 34 hanja with the reading "young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1]

People

People with this name include:

Entertainers

Others

Fictional characters

Fictional characters with this name include:

See also

References

  1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
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