Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kwangmyong

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kwangmy-ong
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The national intranet service of North Korea opened in the early 2000s.

Etymology

Borrowed from the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 광명(光明) (Gwangmyeong, literally “Light”). Doublet of Gwangmyeong.

Origin

Source language: Korean

Word Breakdown

Root: ^광명(光明)

Derived Forms

'Myong

Questions

What does kwangmyong mean?: The national intranet service of North Korea opened in the early 2000s.
Where does kwangmyong come from?: It is traced to Korean.

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