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Jin-woo

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This article is about the name. For the manufacturing company, see Jinwoo SMC.

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

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Jin-woo
Hangul
진우
Hanja
Revised RomanizationJin-u
McCune–ReischauerChinu
IPA[t͡ɕinu]
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Hanja

There are 43 hanja with the reading "jin" and 41 hanja with the reading "woo" 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:

  • 珍友 (보배 진 bobae jin, 벗 우 beot u): "treasured friend"
  • 眞友 (참 진 cham jin, 벗 우 beot u): "true friend". These characters are also used to write the Japanese given name Masatomo.[2]
  • 眞宇 (참 진 cham jin, 집 우 jip u): "true home"

People

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People with this name include:

Political figures

  • Song Jin-woo (journalist) (1889–1945), Korean journalist and independence activist
  • O Jin-u (1917–1995), North Korean soldier and politician
  • Stephen Jin-Woo Kim (born 1967), South Korean-born American man imprisoned for disclosing classified information to a journalist

Sportspeople

Entertainers

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