Hangul 주 McCune–Reischauer Chu | Revised Romanization Ju | |
Hanja Family/given:
朱周
Given name only:
主注住宙走酒晝舟株州
洲柱奏珠鑄冑湊炷註疇
週遒駐妵澍姝侏做呪嗾
廚籌紂紬綢蛛誅躊輳酎
燽鉒拄皗邾䎻絑䝬椆㫶
珘紸調晭 | ||
Joo, also spelled Ju 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.
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Family name
As a family name, Joo 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 ([WuYuan],[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). The 2000 South Korean census found 215,010 people with this family name.
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.
People with these family names include:
Given name
There are 56 hanja with the reading "joo" 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. One name containing this syllable, Eun-ju, was the sixth-most popular name for newborn South Korean girls in 1970.
Names beginning with this syllable include:
Names ending with this syllable include:
People with the single syllable given name Joo include: