Hangul 우 McCune–Reischauer U | Revised Romanization U | |
Hanja Family/given:
於
禹
Given name only:
于宇右牛友雨憂又尤遇 羽郵愚偶優佑祐瑀寓堣 隅玗釪迂䨒旴盂禑紆芋 藕虞雩扜圩慪燠㥥俁邘
盓 | ||
Woo, also spelled Wu or U, is a Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names.
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Family name
As a family name, Woo may be written with either of two hanja (禹 and 於). Each has one bon-gwan: for the former, Danyang, Chungcheongbuk-do, and for the latter, Mokcheon-eup (목천읍), Dongnam-gu, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, both in what is today South Korea. The 2000 South Korean census found 180,141 people with these family names. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 97.0% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Woo in their passports, while only 1.6% spelled it as Wu. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 1.4%) included U and Wo.
People with these family names include:
Given name
There are 41 hanja with the reading "woo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are listed in the table at right.
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, some names containing this element were popular for newborns in South Korea, including:
Other names containing this element include: