Three Kavis / Pioneers

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

ကဝိ သုံးဦး

• U Khin Zaw (“K”, BBS U Khin Zaw)
• U Thein Han (Zawgyi)
• U Wun (Minthuwun)

ဦးခင်ဇော် (K)
U Khin Zaw

• ပထမဆုံး ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်စာကြည့်တိုက်မှူး Inaugural Chief Librarian, RU Library
• မြန်မာ့အသံ BBS တည်ထောင် / ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး Founder / Director of Burma Broadcasting Service (BBS)
• ဂီတ ပညာရှင်။ Expert on Music
• Author : Burma in My Life Time
• Children : One son, Four daughters

ဦးသိန်းဟန် (ဇော်ဂျီ)
U Thein Han

• ဒုတိယမြောက် ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်စာကြည့်တိုက်မှူး Succeeded U Khin Zaw as Chief Librarian of RU Library
• စာကြည့်တိုက် မှူး ၊ တက္ကသိုလ်များ ဗဟို စာကြည့်တိုက် Chief Librarian, Universities’ Central Library
• အမျိုးသားစာပေဆု National Literary Award winner
• စာပေဗိမာန်စာမူဆု Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Award Winner
• ခေတ်စမ်း စာပေ Co-founder of Khit San Sar Pay with Theikpan Maung Wa and Minthuwun
• Children : Three daughters

ဦးဝန် (မင်းသုဝဏ်)
U Wun

• ဌာနမှူး ၊ တက္ကသိုလ်ဘာသာပြန်ဌာန Head, Translation Department, Rangoon University
• ပါမောက္ခ ၊ မြန်မာစာဌာန Professor, Burmese Department, Rangoon University
• ဧည့်ပါမောက္ခ ၊ အိုစာကာ တက္ကသိုလ် Visiting Professor, Osaka University
• မြန်မာစာ အဘိဓာန် Lexicographer; Burmese Dictionary
• ဂျပန် – မြန်မာ အဘိဓာန် Japanese – Burmese Dictionary
  (ချစ်မန်းနွယ် အဖွဲ့နှင့် အတူ) with Chit Man Nwe / Professor Harada & team
• ခေတ်စမ်းစာပေ Co-founder of Khit San Sar Pay with Theikpan Maung Wa and Zawgyi

Three Pioneers

Saya U Wun (Minthuwun), BBS U Khin Zaw (“K”) and Saya U Thein Han (Zawgyi)

U Khin Zaw founded BBS (Burma Broadcasting Service, Myanmar Ah Than) and served as its Director. Earlier, he was Chief Librarian of Rangoon University Library. He was succeeded by U Thein Han.

U Wun headed the Translation Department at Rangoon University. He served as Professor of Burmese at RU, and as Visiting Professor at Osaka University. He is a Lexicographer. He compiled the Myanmar Abhidan. He worked with Professor Harada (Chit Man Nwe) and team on the Japanese-Burmese Dictionary.

Zawgyi and Minthuwun are Laureate Poets. They co-founded Khit San Sar Pay with Theikpan Maung Wa (ICS U Sein Tin). They were the early students of Saya U Pe Maung Tin (Pali and Burmese Scholar, first native Principal of Rangoon College).