Jin-woo

Jin-woo is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

This article is about the name. For the manufacturing company, see Jinwoo SMC.
Jin-woo
Hangul
진우
Hanja
Revised RomanizationJin-u
McCune–ReischauerChinu
IPA[t͡ɕinu]

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

Entertainers
  • Jung Jin-woo (born 1938), South Korean film director
  • Lee Jin-woo (actor) (born 1969), South Korean actor
  • Jinu (born Kim Jin-woo, 1971), American rapper of Korean descent, member of music duo Jinusean
  • Kim Jin-woo (actor) (born 1983), South Korean actor
  • Park Jin-woo (born 1983), South Korean actor
  • Kim Jin-woo (musician) (born 1991), South Korean singer, member of boy band Winner
  • Park Jin-woo (born 1996), also known as Jinjin, South Korean singer, member of boy band Astro

Other

See also

References
  1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF) (in Korean). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  2. Breen, Jim (2011). Japanese Names Dictionary. Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
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