Sound element

Metal names

Sound elements follow the Korean pronunciation-element tradition, adapted to English: K and G count as wood; T, D, N, L and R as fire; vowels, H, W and Y as earth; S, Z, SH, CH and J as metal; and M, B, P, F and V as water. The first sound of a name counts double.

Here are the 139 names in our list whose sounds lean most toward metal. They answer charts where metal is the thinnest of the five elements.