How it is written
변 卞 Byeon
Rank and people
Rank 45 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 138,802 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.28% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 변 can be written with more than one hanja.
卞 78,156 people write it with this hanja
- 卞 law, rule, rash
邊 60,633 people write it with this hanja
- 邊 edge, margin, side
變 13 people write it with this hanja
- 變 change, strange
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Byeon. McCune-Reischauer: Pyŏn. Other spellings: Byun, Byon, Byoun, Pyun, Byen
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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.