Not quite...turtle wrote:How Soon is Korean yes/no?
Although there are dozens of characters that are pronounced soon and all mean entirely different things, the three most common usage of the word soon (순) is a syllable from one of the following the Chinese characters I've listed below, the first two fairly common in Korean names(purity/ order), so yes, "soon" by itself is Korean. However they are used mostly in "old school" girls' names of the past, much how you don't find many girls these days with the name ETHEL, GERTRUDE, or er...FANNY. Typical granny/hokey names that use soon are Soonja, Soonsook, Soonhee(a proper romanized variant on Woody Allen's Soon Yi, as the enunciated syllable yi/yee cannot actually be written in Korea, and sounds like ee or hee, depending on the actual syllable), and others, although it's occasionally used in men's names of yore, such as my father-in-law's name Soonyoung Kim.
純 - purity
順 - order, sequence
巡 - to turn, return, patrol
The pronounced syllable(s) of how/hao doesn't exist in Korean wordings (although can be enunciated/pronounced if needed), but the common usage of it in Chinese as the character for "good/like" is similarly pronounced in Korean as the monosyllabic ho, the Chinese character itself used frequently in the three East Asian languages, although its Korean usage is reserved for very special cases when combined exclusively with other syllables, never used as simply "I/you/he/she/they/we like" as in Chinese and Japanese:
好
Mandarin: hào
Korean: ho
Japanese: suki
