Wonsan

English

Etymology

From Korean 원산(元山) (Wonsan).

Proper noun

Wonsan

1. A city in Kangwon Province, North Korea.
   • 2019 July 28, “North Korea frees Russian fishing boat: Moscow”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 July 2019, News‎^[2]:

     The boat's 15 Russian and two South Korean crew members were detained in the port of Wonsan and faced accusations of entering North Korean territorial waters without permission. […]
     "At 19:30, the vessel left the Wonsan port's pier and headed to Sokcho (South Korea), where two South Korean crewmembers will come ashore," it said.

Translations

a city in North Korea

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 元山 (jyun⁴ saan¹)

  Mandarin: 元山 (zh) (Yuánshān)

• Japanese: 元山 (ウォンサン, Wonsan)
• Korean: 원산(元山) (ko) (Wonsan)
• Russian: Вонса́н m (Vonsán)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wonsan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3486, column 1