Seung-woo

Seung-woo, also spelled Sung-woo, is a Korean masculine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 17 hanja with the reading "seung"^[1] and 60 hanja with the reading "woo"^[2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

Seung-woo

Pronunciation	/sʊŋ.wu/
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Korean
Meaning	Different depending on Hanja
Other names
Alternative spelling	Sung-woo

Seung-woo
Hangul	승우
Hanja	承優, 勝宇, 昇愚, and others
Revised Romanization	Seung-u
McCune–Reischauer	Sŭng'u
IPA	[sɯŋu]

People

People with this name include:

Sportspeople

• Han Seung-woo (sport shooter) (born 1983), South Korean sport shooter
• Choi Seung-woo (born 1989), South Korean track cyclist
• Nam Seung-woo (born 1992), South Korean football midfielder (Belgian Second Division)
• Ryu Seung-woo (born 1993), South Korean football forward (Bundesliga)
• Lee Seung-woo (born 1998), South Korean football forward and midfielder (Spanish youth league)

Entertainers

• Kim Seung-woo (born 1969), South Korean actor
• Cha Seung-woo (born 1978), South Korean singer and actor
• Cho Seung-woo (born 1980), South Korean actor
• Han Seung-woo (singer) (born 1994), South Korean singer
• Yoo Seung-woo (born 1997), South Korean singer

Others

• Lee Seung-u (born 1959), South Korean writer

See also

• List of Korean given names