| Seon | |
| Hangul | 선 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Seon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sŏn |
Seon,also spelled Sun,is an uncommon Korean family name,as well as an element in Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
As a family name,Seon may be written with either of two hanja,one meaning "to announce" (宣) and the other meaning "first" (先). Each has one bon-gwan :for the former,Boseong,Jeollanam-do,and for the latter,Jinseong,Jinju,Gyeongsangnam-do,both in what is today South Korea. [1] The 2000 South Korean census found 38,849 people with these family names. [2] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports,it was found that 60.7% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Sun in their passports,while another 39.2% spelled it as Seon. [3]
People with this family name include:
There are 41 hanja with the reading "seon" 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. [4]
People with the single-syllable name Seon include:
Given names containing this element include: