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Ju (Korean name)

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Ju ([tɕu]), also spelled Joo or Chu, is a Korean family name and an element in Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Ju
Hangul
주
Hanja
Revised RomanizationJu
McCune–ReischauerChu

Family name

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As a family name, Ju may be written with either of two hanja, one meaning "red" (朱; 붉을 주), and the other meaning "around" (周; 두루 주). The former has one bon-gwan (Wu Yuan, China), while the latter has four (Sangju, Gyeongsangbuk-do; Chogye-myeon, Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do; Cheorwon-gun, Gangwonnam-do; and Anui-myeon, Hamyang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do).[1] The 2000 South Korean census found 215,010 people with this family name.[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 50.6% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Ju in their passports, and another 46.9% spelled it as Joo. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 2.4%) included Chu and Choo.[3]

People with these family names include:

Chu

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Joo

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Ju

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Given name

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There are 56 hanja with the reading "ju" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are listed in the table at right.[4] One name containing this syllable, Eun-ju, was the sixth-most popular name for newborn South Korean girls in 1970.[5]

Names beginning with this syllable include:

Names ending with this syllable include:

People with the single syllable given name Ju include:

  • Joo (singer), stage name of Jung Min-joo (born 1990), South Korean solo singer, and older sister of Jung Il-hoon (former member of South Korean boy band BtoB)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "한국성씨일람" [List of Korean family names]. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  2. ^ "성씨인구분포데이터" [Family name population and distribution data]. South Korea: National Statistics Office. Archived from the original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  5. ^ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
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