chongjin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A city in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, the third largest city in North Korea.
Example Sentences
- "There were times and places in North Korea in the mid-1990s, as a great famine wiped out perhaps 10 percent of the population, that children feared to sleep in the open. Some of them had wandered in from the countryside to places like Chongjin, an industrial town on the coast, where they lived on streets and in railroad stations."
- ""The North Hamgyong Provincial E-Library has 301 computers," translates Suh Byung Kim, the wiry 34-year-old guide, as the head librarian speaks Korean. "It is open every day at 10 a.m. Every person in the provincial capital Chongjin can use them," he says to a group of Westerners visiting the location."
- "Mr Fowle said he left the Bible with his name in it in a bathroom under a bin at a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin and hoped a Christian would find it."
- "“When I lived in North Korea, I never had the freedom to wear what I wanted, but I never questioned it because I didn’t know this freedom existed,” said Jihyun Kang, 31, who grew up in Chongjin, the third-largest city in North Korea."
Etymology
From Korean 청진(淸津) (Cheongjin).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^청진(淸津)