How it is written
주 朱 Ju
Rank and people
Rank 33 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 232,063 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.47% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 주 can be written with more than one hanja.
朱 194,766 people write it with this hanja
- 朱 vermilion, cinnabar, scarletKorean reading 주 · 6 strokes
周 37,240 people write it with this hanja
- 周 circumference, circuit, lapKorean reading 주 · 8 strokes
主 33 people write it with this hanja
- 主 lord, chief, masterKorean reading 주 · 5 strokes
珠 17 people write it with this hanja
- 珠 pearl, gem, jewelKorean reading 주 · 10 strokes
株 7 people write it with this hanja
- 株 stocks, stump, shares
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Ju. McCune-Reischauer: Chu. Other spellings: Joo, Choo, Jou, Zoo, Zhu
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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.