Soo-young (name)

Soo-young
PronunciationSoo-young (/sʰujʌ̹ŋ/)
GenderBoth (feminine)
Origin
Word/nameKorean
MeaningDifferent depending on hanja
Soo-young
Hangul
수영
Hanja
, , , , and others
Revised RomanizationSu-yeong
McCune–ReischauerSuyŏng

Soo-young, also spelled Su-yeong or Su-young, is a Korean given name, that is a unisex name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 67 hanja with the reading "soo" and 34 hanja with the reading "young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1]

  1. ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. Retrieved 13 January 2016.