How it is written
부 夫 Bu
Rank and people
Rank 89 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 10,604 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.02% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 부 can be written with more than one hanja.
夫 10,536 people write it with this hanja
- 夫 husband, manKorean reading 부 · 4 strokes
付 25 people write it with this hanja
- 付 adhere, attach, refer to
傅 23 people write it with this hanja
- 傅 tutor
富 20 people write it with this hanja
- 富 wealth, enrich, abundant
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Bu. McCune-Reischauer: Pu. Other spellings: Boo, Poo, Vu, Booh, Buh
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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.