So | |
Hangul | 소 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | So |
McCune–Reischauer | So |
So,also spelled Soh,is a Korean family name and an element in Korean given names. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write it.
The Korean surname So is normally written with either of two hanja,indicating different lineages:
In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports,it was found that 91% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as So in their passports,while 9% spelled it Soh. [4]
Koreans with these family names include:
Korean names containing the element "so" include:
The name Sora is not composed of two separate hanja characters "so" and "ra",but rather comes from a single native Korean word meaning "conch shell". [5] [6]
There are 45 hanja with the reading "so",and variant forms of six of those,on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names;they are: [7] [8]
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