Woo (Korean given name)

Woo
Pronunciation/wu/
Origin
Word/nameKorean
Meaningdifferent depending on Hanja
Other names
Alternative spellingWu, U
Woo
Hangul
Hanja
, , , , , and others
Revised Romanizationu
McCune–Reischaueru
IPA[u]

Woo, also spelled Wu, or U, is a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names.[1] As a given name the meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 64 hanja with the reading "woo"[2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.