Rasŏn
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Korean 라선(羅先) (Raseon), from 라진(羅津) (Rajin) + 선봉(先鋒) (Seonbong), the two districts that form the city.
Proper noun
[edit]Rasŏn
- A city in North Korea.
- 2012 August 13, Choe Sang-hun, “North Korea Reported to Be Pursuing Industrial Project With China”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 14, 2012, Asia Pacific[2]:
- North Korea also opened a free-trade zone in Rason, at its northeastern corner, in the 1990s.
Usage notes
[edit]- The initial "R" is replaced with "N" (or with nothing or other consonants in other examples) in the South Korean standard, which is also reflected in the spelling, the jamo ㄹ (l) is replaced with ㄴ (n). The modern standard South Korean romanisation does not use ŏ to romanize the vowel [ʌ̹] (jamo: ㅓ (eo)) as is still done in North Korea, a digraph eo is used instead.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a city in North Korea