How it is written
위 魏 Wi
Rank and people
Rank 64 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 32,191 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.06% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 위 can be written with more than one hanja.
魏 31,342 people write it with this hanja
- 魏 high, large, Kingdom of Wei
韋 834 people write it with this hanja
- 韋 tanned leather radical (no. 178)
衛 8 people write it with this hanja
- 衛 defense, protectionKorean reading 위 · 16 strokes
偉 7 people write it with this hanja
- 偉 admirable, greatness, remarkableKorean reading 위 · 12 strokes
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Wi. Other spellings: Wee, We, Wie, Wei, Wui
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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.