Seon, also spelled Sun, is an uncommon Korean family name, as well as an element in Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
Seon | |
Hangul | 선 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Seon |
McCune–Reischauer | Sŏn |
Family name edit
As a family name, Seon may be written with either of two hanja, one meaning "to announce" (宣) and the other meaning "first" (先). Each has one bon-gwan: for the former, Boseong, Jeollanam-do, and for the latter, Jinseong, Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, both in what is today South Korea.[1] The 2000 South Korean census found 38,849 people with these family names.[2] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 60.7% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Sun in their passports, while another 39.2% spelled it as Seon.[3]
People with this family name include:
- Sun Dong-yeol (born 1963), South Korean baseball player
- Sun Mi-sook (born 1968), South Korean volleyball player
- Sun So-eun (born 1988), South Korean swimmer
- Sun Yein (born 1996), stage name Sunyoul, South Korean singer, member of UP10TION
- Sun Mu, 20th-century Korean painter
- Sun Mi (born 1992), South Korean singer. Changed her name to Lee Sun-mi
Given name edit
There are 41 hanja with the reading "seon" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are listed in the table at right.[4]
People with the single-syllable name Seon include:
- Seon of Balhae (fl. 818–830), 10th King of Balhae
- Kim Seon (fl. 10th century), minor lord of the early Goryeo Dynasty
- Jeong Seon (1676–1759), Joseon Dynasty landscape painter
- Sunwoo Sun (born Jung Yoo-jin, 1975), South Korean actress
- Chloe Kim (Korean name Kim Seon, born 2000), American snowboarder of Korean descent
Given names containing this element include:
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "한국성씨일람" [List of Korean surnames]. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
- ^ "성씨인구분포데이터" [Family name population and distribution data]. South Korea: National Statistics Office. Archived from the original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
- ^ 성씨 로마자 표기 방안: 마련을 위한 토론회 [Plan for romanisation of surnames: a preparatory discussion]. National Institute of the Korean Language. 25 June 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
- ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.