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) (쇠 철 soe cheol): "iron"
 * 2) * (variant of above)
 * 3) (밝을 철 balgeul cheol): "bright", "keen"
 * 4) * (variant of above)
 * 5) (통할 철 tonghal cheol): "to penetrate"
 * 6) (맑을 철 malgeul cheol): "pure"
 * 7) (거둘 철 geodul cheol): "to harvest", "to achieve"
 * 8) (바퀴 자국 철 bakwi jaguk cheol): "wheel track"
 * 9) (엮을 철 yeokkeul cheol): "to weave"
 * 10) (볼록할 철 bollokhal cheol): "convex", "to protrude"
 * 11) (그칠 철 geuchil cheol): "to stop"
 * 12) (밝을 철 balgeul cheol): "wise"
 * 13) (눈 밝을 철 nun balgeul cheol): "sharp eyesight"

People
People with the single-syllable given name Chul include:
 * Jeong Cheol (1536–1593), Joseon Dynasty statesman and poet
 * Kim Chol (c. 1960 – 2012), North Korean politician
 * Kang Chul (born 1971), South Korean football player
 * Park Chul (born 1973), South Korean football player
 * Woo Chul (born 1978), South Korean swimmer
 * Kim Chul (born 1980), South Korean field hockey player
 * Hong Chul (born 1990), South Korean football player
 * Pak Chol (born 1990), North Korean long-distance runner
 * Lim Cheol (born 1991), stage name DinDin, South Korean rapper
 * Ahn Chol, North Korean freelance journalist

Fictional characters with the name Chul include:
 * 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. Other Korean given names containing the element Chul include:


 * First syllable
 * Cheol-min
 * Chul-soo
 * Chul-soon
 * Chul-woo


 * Second syllable
 * Dong-chul
 * Hee-chul
 * Kyu-chul
 * Min-chul


 * Seung-chul
 * Sung-chul
 * Won-chul
 * Won-chul