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]
Kang Cheol, brother of Player 067 (Kang Sae-byeok) in the 2021 South Korean drama Squid Game
As name element
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.[2] Other Korean given names containing the element Chul include:
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