hamhung
/hɑmˈhʊŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The provincial capital of South Hamgyong Province, North Korea; the country's 2nd-largest city and 3rd-largest port.
Example Sentences
- "Author, editor, memoirist, Hyun isn't exactly searching for his roots. Rather, at 70, he's trying to make sense of a life that began in the industrial city of Hamhung, near the east coast of what is now North Korea, and has somehow deposited him in New York and France."
- "Hamhung is North Korea’s second city. The birthplace of the founder of Korea’s Ri dynasty and the site of a famous battle during the Korean War, Hamhung has since developed into a spacious industrial city of around 750,000 inhabitants."
- "It was unusual for a North Korean woman of her status to get a higher education. But my mother was such a good scholar that she was accepted at a college in the nearby city of Hamhung. If given a choice, she would have liked to have become a doctor. But only students from better families are allowed a say in what they will study."
- "South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it had detected the launch of what it presumed were two ballistic missiles at about 8 a.m. (2300 GMT) from near Hamhung, on the east coast of North Korea."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^함흥(咸興)
Inflected Forms
Hamheung (alternative)
Ham-heng (alternative)