Hangul 근 McCune–Reischauer Kŭn | Revised Romanization Geun | |
Hanja Family/given斤 (axe)Given name only:近勤根僅墐漌槿瑾嫤筋劤懃芹菫覲饉謹 | ||
Geun, also spelled Gun, Keun, or Kun, is a rare Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable names.
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Family name
As a family name, Geun is written with one hanja, meaning "axe" (斤; 도끼 근), also the name of the unit of weight sometimes called "catty" in English. It has one bon-gwan: Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, in what is today South Korea. The 2000 South Korean census estimated that there were 242 people with this family name.
Hanja
As a given name or name element, the meaning of "geun" differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 18 hanja with this reading on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:
People
People with the single-syllable given name Geun include:
As name element
Korean given names containing the element "geun" include: