Gun (Korean name)


Gun, also spelled Geon, Kŏn, Keon, Gon, Kuhn, or Kun, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as an element in some two-syllable given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Hanja

There are 15 hanja with this reading, and variant forms of two of those, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are:
  1. : "to construct"
  2. *
  3. : "sky"
  4. *: "dry"
  5. *
  6. : "object", "matter"
  7. : "strong"
  8. : "towel"
  9. : "respect"
  10. : "door latch"
  11. : "key"
  12. : "error"
  13. : "sinew"
  14. : "cripple"
  15. : "wane"
  16. : "to pick"
  17. : name of a body of water
  18. : "follow"

    People

People with this name include:
In the 2000s, one given name containing this element, Kun-woo, was a popular name for newborn baby boys in South Korea. Other given names containing this element include: