Woo (Korean name)
| Woo | |
| Hangul | 우 |
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| Hanja | Family/given: Given name only: |
| Revised Romanization | U |
| McCune–Reischauer | U |
Woo, also spelled Wu or U, is a Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names.
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Family name
As a family name, Woo may be written with either of two hanja (禹 and 於). Each has one bon-gwan: for the former, Danyang, Chungcheongbuk-do, and for the latter, Mokcheon-eup (목천읍), Dongnam-gu, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, both in what is today South Korea.[1] The 2000 South Korean census found 180,141 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 97.0% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Woo in their passports, while only 1.6% spelled it as Wu. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 1.4%) included U and Wo.[3]
People with these family names include:
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- Woo Jang-choon (1898–1959), Korean-born Japanese botanist
- Woo Yong-gak (born 1929), North Korean commando held in South Korea as one of the unconverted long-term prisoners
- U Tong-chuk (born 1942), North Korean politician
- Woo Bum-kon (1955–1982), South Korean police officer and spree killer
- Meredith Jung-En Woo (born 1958), South Korean-born American political scientist
- Woo Hee-young (born 1963), South Korean footballer
- Sung J. Woo (born 1971), South Korean-born American writer
- Woo Sung-yong (born 1974), South Korean footballer
- Woo Chul (born 1978), South Korean swimmer
- Woo Sun-hee (born 1978), South Korean handball player
- Woo Seung-je (born 1982), South Korean footballer
- Woo Seung-yeon (1983–2009), South Korean actress
- Woo Seung-jae (born 1986), South Korean wrestler
- Kevin Woo (born 1991), American singer of Korean descent
- Masta Wu (born Woo Jin-won in 1978), South Korean rapper (YG Ent. solo artist/duo YMGA, underground rapper, a producer on SMTM3, soon to have own label)
- Zico (rapper) (born Woo Ji-ho, 1992), South Korean rapper, member of Block B
- Hyelim (full name Woo Hye-lim, born 1992), South Korean singer, member of Wonder Girls
- Woo Joo-sung (born 1993), South Korean footballer
- Woo Haram (born 1998), South Korean diver
Given name
There are 41 hanja with the reading "woo" 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]
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, some names containing this element were popular for newborns in South Korea, including:[5][6][7][8]
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Other names containing this element include:
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See also
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