Geun
Geun, also spelled Gun, Keun, or Kun, is a rare Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, an element in some two-syllable names, and a historical Korean unit of measurement for weight.
Family name
As a family name, Geun is written with one hanja, meaning "axe", also the name of the unit of weight sometimes called "catty" in English. It has one bongwan: Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, in what is today South Korea. The 2000 South Korean census enumerated that there were 242 people with this family name.Given name
People with the single-syllable given name Geun include:- Kwŏn Kŭn, early Joseon Dynasty Neo-Confucian scholar
- Ri Gun, North Korean diplomat