kangwŏn
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The IUTC is located in Gangwon-do of South Korea. Gangwon-do is a province of South Korea, with its capital at Chuncheon.[…]Its northern boundary is the Military Demarcation Line, separating it from North Korea's Kangwŏn Province."
- "Chang Yŏnggŏn was born in 1914 in San’gongni, a collection of small hamlets in the mountains some twenty-five kilometers southwest of Ch’unch’ŏn, the capital of South Korea’s Kangwŏn Province."
- "In fall 1996, there was a dramatic incursion by a North Korean submarine, which ran aground on the eastern coast of South Korea’s Kangwŏn province, that resulted in shootouts in the forest and collateral deaths of South Korean civilians."
- "The characters Gomi and Uncle Oppondori are ghosts that have haunted Chi’ak Mountain (in South Korea’s Kangwŏn Province) for thirty years."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^강원(江原)