철원

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Korean

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Etymology

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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 (), a hunju-eumjong writing of the ancestor of Middle Korean (Yale: thel, “hair”), was rewritten by a phonogramic (MC thet).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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철원 (Cheorwon) (hanja 鐵原)

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