First name origin & meaning: Korean: Heaven Last name origins & meanings:
- Korean (Ch{ou}n): there are three Chinese characters for the
surname Ch{ou}n.
- Some sources number the clans which use the most
common character as high as 178, but only seventeen have been
documented. All of these descend from a common ancestor, Ch{ou}n
S{ou}p. The founding king of the Kogury{ou} kingdom (37
bc–ad 668) had three sons, the youngest of whom
went south and established what would later become one of Kogury{ou}’s
rival kingdoms, Paekche. This son took with him ten servants, one of
whom was Ch{ou}n S{ou}p.
- Five clans use the second most common
Chinese character for their surname. These clans descended from
different ancestors, at least two of whom migrated to Korea from
China.
- The clan which uses the least common character, the
Mun’gy{ou}ng Ch{ou}n, descends from an ancestor named Ch{ou}n
Yu-g{ou}m. Ch{ou}n Yu-g{ou}m was a minister sent from China to visit
the Kory{ou} court in the mid 14th century. He decided to stay in
Korea and married the elder sister of a famous Kory{ou} general, Ch’oe
Y{ou}ng. When the Kory{ou} kingdom fell to the Chos{ou}n kingdom in
1392, Ch{ou}n abandoned his government post and retired to the
countryside to pass the remainder of his years in peaceful obscurity.
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