Joo (Korean name)

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.

Joo
Hangul
주
Hanja
Revised RomanizationJu
McCune–ReischauerChu

Family name

As a family name, Joo may be written with either of two hanja, one meaning "red" (朱; 붉을 주), and the other meaning "around" (周; 두루 주). The former has one bon-gwan (Wu Yuan, China), while the latter has four (Sangju, Gyeongsangbuk-do; Chogye-myeon, Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do; Cheorwon-gun, Gangwonnam-do; and Anui-myeon, Hamyang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do). [1] The 2000 South Korean census found 215,010 people with this family name.[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 50.6% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Ju in their passports, and another 46.9% spelled it as Joo. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 2.4%) included Chu and Choo.[3]

People with these family names include:

  • Ju Si-gyeong (1876–1914), Joseon Dynasty linguist
  • Chu Yo-han (1900–1976), South Korean poet
  • Chu Yung-kwang (1920–1982), South Korean footballer
  • Chu Sang-song (born 1933), North Korean politician, former Minister of People's Security
  • Ju Kyu-chang (born 1939), North Korean industrial official
  • Joo Hyun (born Joo Il-choo, 1941), South Korean actor
  • Joo Hyun-mi (born 1961), South Korean trot singer
  • Ju Jong-gwan (born 1971), South Korean sprint canoer
  • Joo Jin-mo (born 1958), South Korean actor
  • Joo Jin-mo (born 1974), South Korean actor
  • Ju Seung-jin (born 1975), South Korean footballer
  • Joo Hee-jung (born 1977), South Korean basketball player
  • Joo Sang-wook (born 1978), South Korean actor
  • Joo Se-hyuk (born 1980), South Korean table tennis player
  • Brian Joo (born 1981), American-born South Korean singer
  • Ju Ho-jin (born 1981), South Korean footballer
  • Joo Ki-hwan (born 1981), South Korean footballer
  • Joo Hyun-jung (born 1982), South Korean archer
  • Ju Ji-hoon (born 1982), South Korean actor
  • Joo Jong-hyuk (born 1983), South Korean actor and singer
  • Joo Min-jin (born 1983), South Korean short track speed skater
  • Joo Jae-duk (born 1985), South Korean footballer
  • Ju Kwang-youn (born 1985), South Korean footballer
  • Joo Hyeon-woo (born 1990), South Korean footballer
  • Ju Kwang-min (born 1990), North Korean footballer
  • Joo Hyong-jun (born 1991), South Korean speed skater
  • Ju Ha-rin (born 1998), member of South Korean boy band Onewe
  • Joo Kyul-kyung (born 1998), member of South Korean girl group Pristin
  • Ju Hak-nyeon (born 1999), member of South Korean boy group The Boyz
  • Ju Yeon-ho (born 2000), member of South Korean boy group VERIVERY
  • Dong Moon Joo, Korean American businessman
  • Joo Hee-sun, South Korean music video director
  • Joo Seong-ha, North Korean journalist who defected to South Korea in 2002
  • Hyung-ki Joo, British classical pianist of Korean descent
  • Judy Joo, Korean American celebrity chef

Given name

There are 56 hanja with the reading "joo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are listed in the table at right.[4] One name containing this syllable, Eun-ju, was the sixth-most popular name for newborn South Korean girls in 1970.[5]

Names beginning with this syllable include:

Names ending with this syllable include:

People with the single syllable given name Joo include:

  • Joo (singer), stage name of Jung Min-joo (born 1990), South Korean solo singer

See also

References
  1. "한국성씨일람" [List of Korean family names]. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  2. "성씨인구분포데이터" [Family name population and distribution data]. South Korea: National Statistics Office. Archived from the original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
  3. 성씨 로마자 표기 방안: 마련을 위한 토론회 [Plan for romanisation of surnames: a preparatory discussion]. National Institute of the Korean Language. 25 June 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  4. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  5. "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
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