Hyuk
Appearance
Hyuk | |
Hangul | 혁 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Hyeok |
McCune–Reischauer | Hyŏk |
Hyuk, also spelled Hyok or Hyeok, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write the name.
Hanja and meaning
There are nine hanja with this reading on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are:[1]
People
People with this name include:
- Byun Hyuk (born 1966), South Korean film director and screenwriter
- An Hyuk (born 1968), North Korean defector who escaped from the Yodok concentration camp
- Kim Hyuk (born 1972), South Korean judo practitioner
- Jang Hyuk (born 1976), South Korean actor
- Kwon Hyuk (born 1983), South Korean baseball player
- Kim Hyuk (footballer) (born 1985), South Korean football player
- Hyuk Shin (born 1985), South Korean-born American music producer
- Jeong Hyuk (born 1986), South Korean football player
- Dean (South Korean singer) (born Kwon Hyuk, 1992), South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer
- Oh Hyuk (born 1993), South Korean singer, member of Hyukoh
- Jin Hyuk, South Korean television director
People with the stage name or nickname Hyuk include:
- Im Hyuk (born Im Jung-hyuk, 1949), South Korean actor
- Hyuk (singer) (born Han Sang-hyuk, 1995), South Korean singer, member of VIXX
As name element
Given names containing this element include:
See also
References
- ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. p. 49. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ ⿰赤㬎 in Chinese character description language; this character is encoded in the Unicode block CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B, and may not display properly without a specialised font. For the meaning and an image, see "𧹽". zonmal.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.