How it is written
사 史 Sa
Rank and people
Rank 88 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 10,998 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.02% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 사 can be written with more than one hanja.
史 10,730 people write it with this hanja
- 史 history, chronicleKorean reading 사 · 5 strokes
司 135 people write it with this hanja
- 司 director, official, govt officeKorean reading 사 · 5 strokes
謝 61 people write it with this hanja
- 謝 apologize, thank, refuse
舍 46 people write it with this hanja
- 舍 inn, hut, house
沙 26 people write it with this hanja
- 沙 sandKorean reading 사 · 7 strokes
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Sa. Other spellings: Sha, Sah, Sar
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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.