Ban (Korean name)

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Ban
Hangul 반
Hanja

Family name
班 or 潘

Given name
Various
Revised Romanization Ban
McCune–Reischauer Pan

Ban, also spelled Bahn or Pan, is a Korean family name and an element in Korean given names. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write it.

Hanja Korean language characters of Chinese origin

Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation. Hanja-mal or Hanja-eo refers to words that can be written with Hanja, and hanmun refers to Classical Chinese writing, although "Hanja" is sometimes used loosely to encompass these other concepts. Because Hanja never underwent major reform, they are almost entirely identical to traditional Chinese and kyūjitai characters, though the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, the characters 教 and 研 are written as 敎 and 硏. Only a small number of Hanja characters are modified or unique to Korean. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in Japan and Mainland China have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters.

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Family name

Overview

The family name Ban is written with either of two hanja, indicating different lineages. The 2000 South Korean census found a total of 26,171 people and 8,143 households with these family names. [1] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 93.8% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Ban in their passports, while 4% spelled it Van. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 2.2%) included Bahn. [2]

A lineage is a unilineal descent group that can demonstrate their common descent from a known apical ancestor. Unilineal lineages can be matrilineal or patrilineal, depending on whether they are traced through mothers or fathers, respectively. Whether matrilineal or patrilineal descent is considered most significant differs from culture to culture.

Less common (班)

Nanul Ban ( 나눌 반; 班 ; lit. "group") is the less common of the two Ban family names. This character was originally used to write the Chinese family name pronounced Bān in Mandarin. None of the surviving records clarify when the family name was adopted in Korea or whether the various clans using this character as their surname have a common ancestor. [3] The 2000 South Korean census found 2,955 people with this family name, and 919 households. [1] The surviving bon-gwan (origin of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of the clan members) at that time included:

Bon-gwan Type of kinship clan organization in Korean culture

Bon-gwan is the concept of clan in Korea, which is used to distinguish clans that happen to share a same family name. Since Korea has been traditionally a Buddhist country, this clan system is cognate with Gotra in Sanskrit texts and shares most features.

  1. Gwangju: 1,492 people and 451 households. [1]
  2. Kaesong (Gaeseong): 685 people and 215 households. [1] Between the 1985 Census and the 2000 Census, it was the only major Ban (班) clan for which the number of members shrank (from 1,028 people), while all the other major Ban clans saw their population multiply by anywhere from six to eighty times. One author suggests that some members of the Kaesong Ban clan had re-identified as belonging to other bon-gwan in the 2000 Census. It is the only surviving Ban clan in South Korea whose bon-gwan is located in what is now North Korean territory. [3]
  3. Pyeonghae: 401 people and 133 households. [1] It was one of the two Ban clans which showed massive increases in population numbers between the 1985 and 2000 censuses: in the former, it was recorded as having just nine members. [3]
  4. Goseong: 345 people and 113 households. [1] It had just four members in the 1985 census. [3]
  5. Other or unknown bon-gwan: 32 people and 7 households. [1]

More common (潘)

Tteumul Ban (뜨물 반; 潘 ; lit. "leftover water from washing rice") is the more common of the two Ban family names. This character was originally used to write the Chinese family name pronounced Pān in Mandarin. The 2000 South Korean census found 23,216 people with this family name, and 7,224 households. [1] The surviving bon-gwan at that time included:

  1. Geoje (see Geoje Ban clan): 10,063 people and 3,152 households. [1] They claim descent from Ban Bu (반부;潘阜; Pinyin: Pān Fù) of China, who is said to have come to Korea when China was ruled by the Southern Song Dynasty. [4]
  2. Gwangju: 6,660 people and 2,031 households. [1] They are a branch of the Geoje Ban clan. They claim descent from Ban Chung (반충;潘忠), a sixth-generation descendant of Ban Bu who served under Taejo of Joseon. [4]
  3. Giseong: 3,194 people and 1,039 households. [1] They are another branch of the Geoje Ban clan; Giseong was an old placename on Geoje Island. [4] A relatively large concentration had lived in a clan village in Gura-ri, Iseo-myeon, Cheongdo-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, believed to have been established by Ban Ye (반예;潘汭) in the mid-1500s. As late as the 1970s, about 80 households with this family name lived there, but by 2012 that had declined to around 50. [5]
  4. Nampyeong: 2,227 people and 676 households. [1] They are a sub-branch of the Giseong Ban clan. They claim descent from Ban Yu-hyeon (반유현;潘有賢), an official under Gongmin of Goryeo, and through him descent from the Geoje Ban clan's ancestor Ban Bu. [6] [7]
  5. Gyeolseong: 441 people and 133 households. [1]
  6. Eumseong: 408 people and 108 households. [1]
  7. Other or unknown bon-gwan: 64 people and 16 households. [1]

People with this family name include:

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Fictional characters with this family name include:

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In given names

Hanja and meaning

There are 27 hanja with the reading "ban" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are: [8] [9]

  1. 反 (돌이킬 반;dolikil ban): "reflect"
  2. 飯 (밥 반;bap ban): "rice"
  3. 半 (반 반;ban ban): "half"
  4. 般 (가지 반;gaji ban): "kind", "type"
    • (일반 반;ilban ban): "ordinary"
  5. 盤 (소반 반;soban ban): " soban " (kind of tray)
  6. 班 (나눌 반;nanul ban): "group"
  7. 返 (돌이킬 반;dolikil ban): "return"
  8. 叛 (배반할 반;baebanhal ban): "betray"
  9. 伴 (짝 반;jjak ban): "mate"
  10. 畔 (밭두둑 반;batduduk ban): "ridge" (marking boundary between fields)
  11. 頒 (나눌 반;nanul ban): "bestow"
  12. 潘 (뜨물 반;ddeumul ban): "water for washing rice"
  13. 磐 (너럭바위 반;neoreokbawi ban): "flat boulder"
  14. 拌 (버릴 반;beoril ban): "throw away"
    • (쪼갤 반;jjogael ban): "split"
  15. 搬 (옮길 반;omgil ban): "move"
  16. 攀 (더위잡을 반;deowijabeul ban): "grasp"
  17. 斑 (아롱질 반;arongjil ban): "mottled"
  18. 槃 (쟁반 반;jaengban ban): "tray"
  19. 泮 (물가 반;mulga ban): "waterside"
    • (녹을 반;nogeul ban): "melt"
  20. 瘢 (흉터 반;hongteo ban): "scar"
  21. 盼 (눈 예쁠 반;nun yeppeul ban): "beautiful eyes"
  22. 磻 (강 이름 반;gang ireum ban): name of a river
  23. 礬 (명반 반;myeongban ban): "alum"
  24. 絆 (얽어맬 반;eolgeomael ban): "bind", "tie"
  25. 蟠 (서릴 반;seoril ban): "coil"
  26. 豳 (얼룩 반;eolluk ban): "smudge"
  27. 攽 (나눌 반;nanul ban): "divide"

As name element

Korean given names containing the element Ban include:

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References

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  7. ↑ "반유현(潘有賢)". Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names](PDF). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. p. 17. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
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