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Hoon (Korean name)

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Hangul
  
훈

McCune–Reischauer
  
Hun

Revised Romanization
  
Hun

Hanja
  
訓 勳 焄 熏 薰 壎 燻 鑂 暈 纁 煇 薫

Hoon, also spelled Hun, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as a morpheme in many other Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja with which the name is written.

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Hanja

There are 12 hanja with this reading, and two variant forms, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are:

People

People with the single-syllable given name Hoon include:

  • Sim Hun (birth name Sim Daeseop, 1901–1936), Korean novelist of the Japanese colonial period
  • Isao Harimoto (birth name Jang Hun, born 1940), ethnic Korean baseball player in Japan
  • Kim Hoon (born 1948), South Korean novelist
  • Chung Hoon (born 1969), South Korean judo practitioner
  • Lee Hoon (actor) (born 1973), South Korean actor
  • Hoon Lee (short for Tong-Hoon Lee, born 1973), American television, theatre, and voice actor of Korean descent
  • Jang Hoon (born 1975), South Korean film director
  • Jung Hoon (born 1985), South Korean football centre back
  • Lee Hun (footballer) (born 1986), South Korean football player

    • Fictional characters with this name include:

  • Jhun Hoon, character in 1990s and 2000s video game series The King of Fighters

    • As name element

    From the 1960s to the 1980s, a number of given names containing this morpheme were among the top ten most popular names for newborn boys in South Korea:

  • Ji-hoon, the only name among these which has remained in the top ten during the 1990s and 2000s
  • Jung-hoon (10th place in 1960, 1st place in 1970, 3rd place in 1980)
  • Sang-hoon (9th place in 1960 and 1970)
  • Sung-hoon (5th place in 1970, 6th place in 1980)

    • Given names containing this morpheme include:

    References

    Hoon (Korean name) Wikipedia
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