How to write “Sean, Shawn or Shaun” in Korean

숀 syon Listen to 숀, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

Also written: 션

What Korean friends call you

• 숀아 syo-na — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 숀 씨 syon-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Sean

• 숀 153 (94%)
• 션 10 (6%)

Korean labels of 163 people named Sean on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Sean Penn 숀 (sometimes 션); Sean Bean 숀 (sometimes 션); Sean Connery 숀 (sometimes 션).

Well-known people named Sean, Shawn or Shaun, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Shawn Mendes — 숀 멘데스
• Sean Astin — 숀 애스틴
• Shaun Wright-Phillips — 숀 라이트필립스

420,223 babies were named Sean in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 88th most common name.

Block by block

• 숀 = ㅅ + ㅛ + ㄴ · 6 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅛ 요 (yo) · 3 strokes
  • ㄴ 니은 (n) · 1 stroke

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