Hoon (Korean name)
Hoon | |
Hangul | 훈 |
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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
[edit]There are 12 hanja with this reading, and two variant forms, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are:[1]
- 訓 (가르칠 훈 garuchil hun): "to teach"
- 勳 (공 훈 gong hun): "merit"
- 勛 (variant of above)
- 焄 (김 쐴 훈 gim ssoel hun): "to dry gim"
- 熏 (불길 훈 bulgil hun): "blaze"
- 薰 (향풀 훈 hyangpul hun): "basil"
- 壎 (질나발 훈 jilnabal hun): a Korean wind instrument
- 塤 (variant of above)
- 燻 (연기낄 훈 yeongikkil hun): "smoke"
- 鑂 (금빛 투색할 훈 geumbit tusaekhal hun): "faded gold colour"
- 暈 (무리 훈 muri hun): "faint"
- 纁 (분홍빛 훈 bunhongbit hun): "afterglow"
- 煇: "weld"[2]
- 薫 (향풀 훈 hyangpul hun): "basil"
People
[edit]People with the single-syllable given name Hoon include:
- Sim Hun (born Sim Daeseop, 1901–1936), Korean novelist of the Japanese colonial period
- Isao Harimoto (born Jang Hun, 1940), ethnic Korean baseball player in Japan
- Kim Hoon (born 1948), South Korean novelist
- Suh Hoon (born 1954), South Korean intelligence officer
- Chung Hoon (born 1969), South Korean judo practitioner
- Lee Hoon (actor) (born 1973), South Korean actor
- Hoon Lee (born 1973), American television, theatre, and voice actor of Korean descent
- Jang Hoon (born 1975), South Korean film director
- Sung Hoon (singer) (born 1980), South Korean singer, member of R&B group Brown Eyed Soul
- Jung Hoon (born 1985), South Korean football player
- Lee Hun (footballer) (born 1986), South Korean football player
Fictional characters with this name include:
- Jhun Hoon, character in 1990s and 2000s video game series The King of Fighters
As name element
[edit]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]
- Ji-hoon, the only name among these which has remained in the top ten during the 1990s and 2000s[4][5]
- Jung-hoon (10th place in 1960, 1st place in 1970, 3rd place in 1980)
- Sang-hoon (9th place in 1960 and 1970)
- Sung-hoon (5th place in 1970, 6th place in 1980)
Given names containing this morpheme include:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. p. 51. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Archived from the original on 2013-10-20. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
- ^ 이진희 (Yi Jin-hui) (2009-01-28). "너도 민준이니... 어! 또 서연이야". Hankook Ilbo. Archived from the original on 2009-01-30. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
- ^ "남자 → '민준' 여자 → '서연' 가장 많아". Law Times. 2010-01-20. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-09-19.