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

Sang-wook
Hangul
상욱
Hanja
, , , and others
Revised RomanizationSang-uk
McCune–ReischauerSang'uk

Hanja edit

There are 35 hanja with the reading "sang" and 11 hanja with the reading "wook" 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:

  • (서로 상 seoro sang, 아침 해 욱 achim hae uk): "together with the morning sun"
  • (서로 상 seoro sang, 햇빛 밝을 욱 haetbit balgeul uk): "together with the sunshine"
  • (오히려 상 ohiryeo sang, 빛날 욱 binnal uk)

People edit

People with this name include:

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. Retrieved 11 October 2005.