철원

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 鐵原.

Ultimately from the Goguryeo administrative unit 철원 (鐵圓, Cheorwon) in the same region, itself a more Sinitic-looking rewriting of a native place name now read in Sino-Korean as 모을동비 (毛乙冬非, mo'euldongbi). The first element of the native name (毛乙 (毛 乙)), a hunju-eumjong writing of the ancestor of Middle Korean 털 (Yale: thel, “hair”), was rewritten by a phonogramic 鐵 (MC thet).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰʌ̹ɾwʌ̹n]
• Phonetic hangul: [처뤈]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	Cheorwon
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	Cheol'won
McCune–Reischauer?	Ch'ŏrwŏn
Yale Romanization?	chel.wen

Proper noun

철원 • (Cheorwon) (hanja 鐵原)

1. Cheorwon (a county of Gangwon Province, South Korea)
2. Chorwon (a county of Kangwon Province, North Korea)