Geun
| Korean spelling | |
|---|---|
| Korean alphabet : | 근 |
| Revised Romanization : | geun |
| McCune-Reischauer : | can |
Geun ( Korean 근 ; Revised Romanization : geun ; McCune-Reischauer : kŭn ; Yale Romanization : kun ; also Romanized to gun or keun ) is a Sinocorean family name, monosyllabic first name and part of two-syllable first names.
family name
As a family name, Geun is only reproduced with the Hanja 斤 - "ax" . Geun is a relatively rare family name in Korea. According to the statistics of the South Korean statistical service ( Korean 통계청 , English Statistic Korea ) only 170 people had the family name Geun in 2015.
First name
Hanja
Korean names are also rendered in Hanja to emphasize the etymology and clarify the meaning. The hanja to be used for homophonic syllables within first names are specified by the government of South Korea. A total of 18 hanja are available for the syllable geun:
people
People with Geun as a monosyllabic first name:
- Gwon Geun (1352-1409), Korean Neo-Confucian scholar
People who have Geun as part of their first name:
- An Chung-gun (1879–1910), Korean Pan-Asianist and nationalist
- Cha Bum-kun (born 1953), South Korean soccer player
- Ha Geun-chan (1931-2007), South Korean writer
- Jang Keun Suk (* 1987), South Korean actor
- Kim Geun-ho (* 1984), South Korean ice hockey player
- Kim Geun-tae (1947–2011), South Korean politician
- Kim Song Gun (* 1945), North Korean painter
- Kim Song-gun (ice hockey player) (born 1991), North Korean ice hockey player
- Lee Geun-seok (1917–1950), South Korean brigadier general
- Moon Geun-young (* 1987), South Korean actress
- Park Geun-hye (* 1952), South Korean politician and president
- Song Jae-kun (* 1974), South Korean short tracker
Individual evidence
- ↑ 성씨 · 본관 별 인구 (5 인 이상) - 전국. In: KOSIS 국가 통계 포털. 통계청, Retrieved June 26, 2018 (Korean).
- ↑ 인명 용 한자 표. (PDF) 가족 관계 의 등록 등에 관한 규칙 제 37 조. 외교부, August 2007; Retrieved June 30, 2018 (Korean).