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Gun (Korean name)

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Hangul
  

Revised Romanization
  
Geon

Hanja
  
建乾件健巾虔楗鍵愆腱蹇騫搴湕踺

McCune–Reischauer
  
Kŏn

Gun, also spelled Geon, Kŏn, Keon, Gon, Kuhn, or Kun, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as an element in some two-syllable given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

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Hanja

There are 15 hanja with this reading, and variant forms of two of those, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are:

People

People with this name include:

  • Yi Geon (1909–1990), prince of the Korean Empire, later a naturalised Japanese citizen
  • Goh Kun (born 1938), South Korean politician, Prime Minister from 1997 to 1998 and 2003 to 2004
  • Cui Jian (born 1961), Chinese rock musician of Korean descent
  • Yoo Gun (born 1983 as Jo Jeong-ik), American-born South Korean actor
  • Heo Keon (born 1988), South Korean footballer
  • Park Gon (born 1990), South Korean footballer
  • Shin Kuhn, 25th director of South Korea's National Intelligence Service
  • As a name element

    In the 2000s, one given name containing this element, Kun-woo, was a popular name for newborn baby boys in South Korea. Other given names containing this element include:

  • Dong-gun
  • Yoo-gun
  • References

    Gun (Korean name) Wikipedia