Hangul 수 McCune–Reischauer Su | Revised Romanization Su | |
Hanja Family/given水洙Given name only手受授首守收誰須雖愁 樹壽數修秀囚需帥殊隨 輸獸睡遂垂搜琇銖粹穗 繡隋髓袖嗽嫂岫戍漱燧 狩璲瘦綏綬羞茱蒐蓚藪 邃酬銹隧鬚賥豎讎睢睟 瓍宿汓㻽Variant forms:寿脩穂峀竪讐濉 | ||
Soo, also spelled Su, is a rare Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
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Family name
As a family name, Soo may be written with two different hanja, one meaning "water" (水; 물 수), and the other meaning "shore" or "bank" (洙; 물가 수). The former has two bon-gwan, including Gangneung, Gangwon-do in what is today South Korea. The latter has one bon-gwan, Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do, also in what is today South Korea. The 2000 South Korean census found 199 people with these family names.
Given name
There are 67 hanja with the reading "soo", and variant forms of seven of those, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. 66 are listed in the table at right (one is not included due to encoding issues).
People with the given name Soo include:
Korean names which begin with this element include:
Korean names which end with this element include: