Yoo: Korean surname in hangul and hanja

How it is written

유 柳 YuListen: 유

Rank and people

Rank 12 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 963,498 people carry the surname in hangul, 1.94% of the Korean nationals counted.

Hanja spellings

The surname 유 can be written with more than one hanja.

• 柳 478,990 people write it with this hanja

  • 柳 willow

• 劉 302,511 people write it with this hanja

  • 劉 weapon of war, logging axe, kill en masse

• 兪 167,927 people write it with this hanja

  • 兪 affirmative response, relaxed, at ease

• 庾 13,868 people write it with this hanja

  • 庾 granary, storehouse

• 杻 28 people write it with this hanja

  • 杻 ligustrum sinenese, tree

• 有 27 people write it with this hanja

  • 有 possess, have, existKorean reading 유 · 6 strokes

• 楡 12 people write it with this hanja

  • 楡 elm

• 由 8 people write it with this hanja

  • 由 wherefore, a reasonKorean reading 유 · 5 strokes

• 裕 6 people write it with this hanja

  • 裕 abundant, rich, fertileKorean reading 유 · 12 strokes

Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.

Romanization and spellings

Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Yu. Other spellings: Yoo, You, Ryu, Ryoo, Lyu