Chul (Korean name)


Chul, also spelled Cheol or Chol, is a single-syllable Korean masculine given name, as well as an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Hanja

There are 11 hanja with the reading "chul" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names, as well as variant forms of two of those hanja; they are:
  1. : "iron"
  2. *
  3. : "bright", "keen"
  4. *
  5. : "to penetrate"
  6. : "pure"
  7. : "to harvest", "to achieve"
  8. : "wheel track"
  9. : "to weave"
  10. : "convex", "to protrude"
  11. : "to stop"
  12. : "wise"
  13. : "sharp eyesight"

    People

People with the single-syllable given name Chul include:
In South Korea, some names ending with this element were popular for baby boys in the 1950s and 1960s, including Sang-chul, Byung-chul, and Young-chul. Other Korean given names containing the element Chul include:
;First syllable
;Second syllable
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