Jin-woo
This article is about the name. For the manufacturing company, see Jinwoo SMC.
| Jin-woo | |
| Hangul | 진우 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 眞友, 珍友, 眞宇, 振宇, 津宇, 鎭宇, and others |
| Revised Romanization | Jin-u |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chinu |
Jin-woo is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.
Hanja
There are 43 hanja with the reading "jin" and 41 hanja with the reading "woo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1] Ways of writing this name in hanja include:
- 珍友 (보배 진 bobae jin, 벗 우 beot u): "treasured friend"
- 眞友 (참 진 cham jin, 벗 우 beot u): "true friend". These characters are also used to write the Japanese given name Masatomo.[2]
- 眞宇 (참 진 cham jin, 집 우 jip u): "true home"
People
People with this name include:
- Political figures
- Song Jin-woo (journalist) (1889–1945), Korean journalist and independence activist
- O Jin-u (1917–1995), North Korean soldier and politician
- Stephen Jin-Woo Kim (born 1967), South Korean-born American man imprisoned for disclosing classified information to a journalist
- Sportspeople
- Song Jin-woo (born 1966), South Korean left-handed baseball pitcher (Korea Professional Baseball)
- Kim Jin-woo (footballer) (born 1975), South Korean football coach and former midfielder (K-League Classic)
- Lee Jin-woo (born 1982), South Korean football forward (Korea National League)
- Hwang Jin-woo (born 1983), South Korean auto racing driver
- Kim Jin-woo (baseball) (born 1983), South Korean right-handed baseball pitcher (Korea Professional Baseball)
- Kim Jin-Woo (swimmer) (born 1983), Kenyan swimmer of Korean descent
- Park Jin-woo (volleyball) (born 1990), South Korean volleyball player
- Entertainers
- Jung Jin-woo (born 1938), South Korean film director
- Lee Jin-woo (actor) (born 1969), South Korean actor
- Kim Jinu (born 1971), member of South Korean music duo Jinusean
- Kim Jin-woo (actor) (born 1983), South Korean actor
- Park Jin-woo (born 1983), South Korean actor
- Kim Jin-woo (born 1991), South Korean singer, member of boy band Winner
- Other
- Cheon Jinwoo (born 1962), South Korean chemist
See also
References
- ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
- ↑ Breen, Jim (2011). Japanese Names Dictionary. Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.