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Yoo (Korean surname)

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Yu or Ryu
Hangul
有 or 流
Hanja
Revised Romanization Yu or Ryu
McCune?Reischauer Yu or Ryu

Yu or Yoo , or sometimes Ryu or Ryoo , is the English transcription of several Korean surnames written as 有 or 流 in hangul . As of 2000, roughly a million people are surnamed Yoo in South Korea , making up approximately 2% of the population. Of those, the most common is Ryu (Hanja: 柳 , Hangul: 流 ), [1] with more than six hundred thousand holders, whereas Yoo (Hanja: 兪 , 余 Hangul: 有 ) accounts for about one hundred thousand.

The family name Yoo can be represented by any of the four hanja : 柳 ( 流 ), 劉 , 兪 and 庾 , each with a different meaning. In Korean, the characters 劉 and 柳 refer to 有 (Yoo) or 流 (Ryu) and are spelled as such because of the first initial sound rule ( 頭音 法則 ) in Korean, whereas the characters 兪 and 庾 refer only to 有 (Yoo). Some of these characters are used to write the Chinese surnames Liu ( 劉 or 柳 ) and Yu ( 兪 ，余).

Notable 柳 (Ryu) clans include the Munhwa Ryu clan and the Pungsan Ryu.

History [ edit ]

In Korea, the Yoo lineage traces to the Xia , Han , and Joseon dynasties . Holders of the surname Yoo had a reputation for charity and diligence.

The largest Ryu (which is a separate clan from Yoo, but pronounced differently), the Munhwa Ryu, [2] was founded by a man named Ch’a Tal . Ch’a's fifth great-grandfather had been involved in an attempt to overthrow the Silla king. To avoid prosecution, the ancestor fled to Munhwa and changed his surname, first to that of his maternal grandmother, Yang, and then to Ryoo. Many years later, Ch’a Tal assisted Wang K?n to establish the Kory? Kingdom . Ch’a was recognized for his support and was rewarded accordingly. However, the historic claims that the Ch'a clans are derived from the same progenitor as Ryu Ch'a-dal have been disproven. The Munhwa Ryoo clan, along with the Andong Kw?n clan, possess one of Korea's oldest clan genealogies . Only the character 柳 is commonly pronounced Ryu or Ryoo ( 流 ). (See Munhwa Ryoo ) The surname "Ryu" comes from the character meaning willow tree . Hence, the lineage is also sometimes called "willow Ryu" ( 버들 류氏 ).

Notable people (historic) [ edit ]

Notable people (contemporary) [ edit ]

Arts & entertainment [ edit ]

Painters & sculptors [ edit ]

  • Yoo Young-ho (born 1965), South Korean sculptor
  • Yoo Youngkuk (1916?2002), South Korean artist in Korea's postwar art history (pioneer of Korean abstract art and Korean modern art)

Musicians [ edit ]

Authors, illustrators, novelists, poets [ edit ]

Athletes [ edit ]

Other [ edit ]

Sports management [ edit ]

Business [ edit ]

  • Yoo Byung-eun (1941?2014), South Korean businessman, inventor, and photographer

Government & politics [ edit ]

Military [ edit ]

Modeling & pageantry [ edit ]

  • Yoo Ye-bin , South Korean beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Korea 2013 and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2014 pageant
  • Jae Yoo , South Korean model

Science & technology [ edit ]

Other [ edit ]

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ A rank 19th with 603,084 people, KOSTAT (Korea National Statistical Office), 2000.
  2. ^ "버들 有(류)氏 60餘萬名 最多… '三韓甲族' 名聲 이어와" . Segye Ilbo (in Korean). 2014-04-22 . Retrieved 2024-01-08 .

External links [ edit ]

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