How it is written
황 黃 Hwang
Rank and people
Rank 18 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 697,475 people carry the surname in hangul, 1.40% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 황 can be written with more than one hanja.
黃 697,171 people write it with this hanja
- 黃 yellow, surname
皇 232 people write it with this hanja
- 皇 emperor
潢 48 people write it with this hanja
- 潢 expanse of water, lake, pond
荒 8 people write it with this hanja
- 荒 laid waste, rough, rude
晃 6 people write it with this hanja
- 晃 clearKorean reading 황 · 10 strokes
煌 5 people write it with this hanja
- 煌 glitter, gleam, twinkleKorean reading 황 · 13 strokes
簧 5 people write it with this hanja
- 簧 flute reed
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Hwang. Other spellings: Whang, Hoang, Huang, Hang, Hawng
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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.