Pronunciation | /u/ |
---|---|
Origin | |
Word/name | Korean |
Meaning | Different depending on Hanja |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | U |
Woo | |
Hangul | 우 |
---|---|
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | U |
McCune–Reischauer | U |
IPA | [u] |
Woo is an uncommon Korean surname.
Woo may be written with either of two hanja ( 禹 and 于). Each has one bon-gwan: for the former, Danyang, North Chungcheong Province, and for the latter, Mokcheon-eup ( 목천읍), Dongnam-gu, Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, 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]
Pronunciation | /u/ |
---|---|
Origin | |
Word/name | Korean |
Meaning | Different depending on Hanja |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | U |
Woo | |
Hangul | 우 |
---|---|
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | U |
McCune–Reischauer | U |
IPA | [u] |
Woo is an uncommon Korean surname.
Woo may be written with either of two hanja ( 禹 and 于). Each has one bon-gwan: for the former, Danyang, North Chungcheong Province, and for the latter, Mokcheon-eup ( 목천읍), Dongnam-gu, Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, 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]