gyeongsang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A province of South Korea.
Example Sentences
- "The key to the latter, showing the entire kingdom, as well as one of the expanded sheets showing the Kyöngsang province in the southeast, and the Nakdong river, the most important stream of the land, are appended to this paper, and will serve to indicate the progress independently attained by the Koreans in the art of map making."
- "My mother identifies herself as being from the countryside of Gyeongsang, a southeastern province in the southern half of the Korean peninsula, yet most of her life was spent being displaced from her hometown by the forces of colonization, war, rural poverty, and migration to the United States. The town of Changnyeong in Gyeongsang province is where my family clan originated. Although I was born in Gyeongsang, in the southeastern port city of Busan, where my mother relocated as a young adult, I had never been to rural Gyeongsang until recently."
- "Though the country split Gyeongsang in half, North Gyeongsang Province is the second largest province, accounting for 18.95% of South Korea. But, when Daegu attained self-governing metropolitan city status in 1981, North Gyeongsang became the nation’s second least populated."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Kyŏngsang (alternative)