Jung-woo

Jung-woo
Hangul
정우
Hanja
正友, 正宇, 政宇, and others
Revised RomanizationJeong-u
McCune–ReischauerChŏng'u

Jung-woo is a Korean unisex given name.

Hanja

Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 75 hanja with the reading "jung" and 41 hanja with the reading "woo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[1] Ways of writing this name in hanja include:

  • 正友 (바를 정 bareul jeong, 벗 우 beot u): "upright friend". The same characters are also used to write the Japanese given name Masatomo.[2]
  • 正宇 (바를 정 bareul jeong, 집 우 jip u): "upright house". The same characters are also used to write the Japanese given name Masataka.[2]

People

People with this name include:

  • Choi Jung-woo (born 1957), South Korean actor
  • Park Jung-woo (born 1969), South Korean film director and screenwriter
  • Ha Jung-woo (born Kim Sung-hoon, 1979), South Korean actor
  • Lim Jung-woo (born 1978), South Korean field hockey player
  • Jung Woo (born Kim Jung-guk, 1981), South Korean actor
  • Kim Jung-woo (born 1982), South Korean football player
  • Seo Jeong-wu (1989–2010), one of two South Korean marines killed in the North Korean bombardment of Yeonpyeong
  • Kim Jung-woo (singer) (born 1990), South Korean singer, former member of SPEED and Coed School
  • Kim Jung-woo (born 1998), South Korean singer, member of NCT
  • Uhm Jung-woo (born 1999), South Korean singer, member of Bvndit

Fictional characters with this name include:

  • Han Jeong-woo, in 2004 South Korean television series April Kiss
  • Seo Jung-woo, in 2005 South Korean television series My Girl
  • Lee Jung-woo, in 2010 South Korean television series Athena: Goddess of War
  • Han Jung-woo, in 2012 South Korean television series Missing You

See also

References
  1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  2. Breen, Jim (2011). Japanese Names Dictionary. Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
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