Jeon (Korean surname)

"Chun (Korean surname)" redirects here. For the rare surname () spelled Chun in the McCune–Reischauer romanisation, see Joon (Korean name). For other uses, see Chun (disambiguation).
Jeon
Family name
Pronunciation Korean pronunciation: [tɕʌn]
Language(s) of origin Korean
Jeon
Hangul
Hanja , , 
Revised Romanization Jeon
McCune–Reischauer Chŏn

Jeon (전), also often spelled Jun, Chun, or Chon, is a common Korean family name. As of the South Korean census of 2000, there were 687,867 people with this name in South Korea. It can be written with three different hanja, each with different meanings and indicating different lineages.[1]

In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 67% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Jeon in their passports, while 23% spelled it Jun, and 4.9% spelled it Chun. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 5.1%) included Chon, Cheon, Jean, Jeun, Jen, Jhun, and Zeon.[2]

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