How it is written
방 方 Bang
Rank and people
Rank 48 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 129,559 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.26% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 방 can be written with more than one hanja.
方 94,831 people write it with this hanja
- 方 direction, person, alternative
房 33,520 people write it with this hanja
- 房 tassel, tuft, fringe
龐 893 people write it with this hanja
- 龐 disorderly, messy, huge
邦 277 people write it with this hanja
- 邦 home country, country, Japan
防 15 people write it with this hanja
- 防 ward off, defend, protect
旁 12 people write it with this hanja
- 旁 RHS of character, at same time
芳 11 people write it with this hanja
- 芳 perfume, balmy, favorableKorean reading 방 · 7 strokes
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Bang. McCune-Reischauer: Pang. Other spellings: Bhang, Bahng, Barng, Baang, Fang
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Sources and credits
- Ranking, population and share: Statistics Korea, 2015 census, 성씨·본관별 인구(5인 이상) - 전국 (population by surname and clan, nationwide), KOSIS table DT_1IN15SD.
- Romanization and spellings: English Wikipedia, "List of Korean surnames", revision 1373629782, by its contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: table reformatted and joined with Statistics Korea and EDRDG data.
- Hanja meanings: KANJIDIC2 (version 2026-272) from the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The EDRDG acknowledgement is at the foot of the page.
- Audio: synthetic speech from Google Cloud Text-to-Speech. See the about page.