Hoon (Korean name)


Hoon, also spelled Hun, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as a morpheme in many other Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja with which the name is written.

Hanja

There are 12 hanja with this reading, and two variant forms, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are:
  1. : "to teach"
  2. : "merit"
  3. *
  4. : "to dry gim"
  5. : "blaze"
  6. : "basil"
  7. : a Korean wind instrument
  8. *
  9. : "smoke"
  10. : "faded gold colour"
  11. : "faint"
  12. : "afterglow"
  13. : "weld"
  14. : "basil"

    People

People with the single-syllable given name Hoon include:
Fictional characters with this name include:
From the 1960s to the 1980s, a number of given names containing this morpheme were among the top ten most popular names for newborn boys in South Korea:
Given names containing this morpheme include: