Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jangmadang

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: jang-madang
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of local market or black market in North Korea that emerged since the famine in the 1990s.

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 장마당 (jangmadang).

Origin

Source language: Korean

Word Breakdown

Root: 장마당

Inflected Forms

jangmadangs (plural)

Questions

What does jangmadang mean?: A kind of local market or black market in North Korea that emerged since the famine in the 1990s.
Where does jangmadang come from?: It is traced to Korean.

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