| Seok-ju | |
| Hangul | 석주 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 錫 冑, 錫 疇, 錫 柱, and others |
| Revised Romanization | Seok-ju |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sŏkju |
Seok-ju, also spelled Seok-joo or Sok-ju, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading "seok" and 56 hanja with the reading "ju" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. [1]
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.
Seok, also spelled Suk, is a rare Korean family name held by about 56,500 South Koreans, as well as an element in some Korean given names.
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.
People with this name include:
- Kim Seok-ju (1634–1684), Joseon Dynasty Neo-Confucian scholar
- Na Seok-ju (1892–1926), Korean independence activist who bombed the Oriental Development Company
- Kang Sok-ju (born 1939), North Korean politician and diplomat
- Ha Seok-ju (born 1968), South Korean football player
Na Seok-ju (1892-1926) was a Korean nationalist made famous for his attack on the Oriental Development Company, an organization set up by Imperial Japan as part of its imperial expansion and development of its colonies. Korea had been declared a Japanese protectorate in 1905 and annexed in 1910.
Kang Sok-ju was a North Korean diplomat and politician.
Ha Seok-ju is a retired South Korean football player and now a manager. Ha played for the South Korea national football team and was a participant at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Fictional characters with this name include:
- Kim Seok-joo, from 2014 South Korean television series A New Leaf
A New Leaf is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Kim Myung-min, Park Min-young, Kim Sang-joong and Chae Jung-an. It aired on MBC from April 30 to June 26, 2014 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
