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Woo

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname from Chinese.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese.

Etymology

From an irregular romanization of various Mandarin Chinese surnames including 吳/吴 (Wú), 伍 (Wǔ), 武 (Wǔ), and 巫 (Wū), or from Cantonese 胡 (wu4).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Korean.

Etymology

From Korean 우 (u). * (surname): from Korean 禹, 于

Forms

plural
Woos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).