Hyuk

Hyuk, also spelled Hyok or Hyeok, is a unisex Korean given name, as well as an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write the name.

Hyuk
Hangul
혁
Hanja
Revised RomanizationHyeok
McCune–ReischauerHyŏk
IPA[çʌ̹k̚]

Hanja and meaning

In South Korea, the Supreme Court's Regulations on Registration of Family Relations require that hanja registered for use in given names be either Basic Hanja for educational use or appear in the Table of Hanja for Personal Name Use. There is one hanja with the reading hyeok among the Basic Hanja for educational use:[1]

  1. 革 (가죽 혁; gajuk hyeok): "leather"

Additionally, as of June 2022, the Table of Hanja for Personal Name Use contains eleven hanja with the reading hyeok (including one which is a variant form of another hanja in the table):[1]

  1. 侐 (고요할 혁; goyohal hyeok): "tranquil"
  2. 嚇 (성낼 혁; seongnael hyeok): "to threaten"
  3. 奕 (클 혁; keul hyeok): "abundant"
  4. 弈 (바둑 혁; baduk hyeok): "the game of Go"
  5. 洫 (봇도랑 혁; botdorang hyeok): "ditch"
  6. 焃 (빛날 혁; binnal hyeok): "shining"
  7. 焱 (불꽃 혁; bulkkot hyeok): "flames"
  8. 赫 (빛날 혁; binnal hyeok) "shining"
  9. 鬩 (다툴 혁; datul hyeok): "to argue"
  10. 𧹽 (진한 붉은빛 혁; jinhan bulgeunbit hyeok): "dark red"[2]

People

People with this name include:

  • Byun Hyuk (born 1966), South Korean film director and screenwriter
  • An Hyuk (born 1968), North Korean defector who escaped from the Yodok concentration camp
  • Kim Hyuk (born 1972), South Korean judo practitioner
  • Jang Hyuk (born 1976), South Korean actor
  • Kwon Hyuk (born 1983), South Korean baseball player
  • Kim Hyuk (footballer) (born 1985), South Korean football player
  • Hyuk Shin (born 1985), South Korean-born American music producer
  • Jeong Hyuk (born 1986), South Korean football player
  • Dean (South Korean singer) (born Kwon Hyuk, 1992), South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer
  • Oh Hyuk (born 1993), South Korean singer, member of Hyukoh
  • Jin Hyuk, South Korean television director

People with the stage name or nickname Hyuk include:

  • Im Hyuk (born Im Jung-hyuk, 1949), South Korean actor
  • Hyuk (singer) (born Han Sang-hyuk, 1995), South Korean singer, member of VIXX

As name element

Given names containing this element include:

See also

References
  1. "가족관계의 등록 등에 관한 규칙" [Regulations on Registration of Family Relations]. Article 37, Regulation No. 3062 of 30 June 2022 (in Korean).
  2. ⿰赤㬎 in Chinese character description language; this character is encoded in the Unicode block CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B, and may not display properly without a specialised font. See "𧹽". zonmal.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
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