Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

han river

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables: han riv-er
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A major river in South Korea that flows through Seoul.

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A tributary of the Yangtse flowing through Shaanxi and Hubei, China, with its river mouth in Wuhan.

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A river in Da Nang, Vietnam.

Example Sentences

"In the one case, a two-storeyed house in Wuchang which has long been needing repairs collapsed and killed the mother and son of the occupier. In the other case, a house built partly on piles at the edge of the Han River above Chiaokou was overturned and the wife and daughter of the tenant were thrown into the river and drowned."
"Here, more than 14 million people in Hubei would be affected if the project damaged the Han River, the tributary of the Yangtze where the middle route starts, said Du Yun, a geographer at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, the provincial capital."

Etymology

Partial calque of Korean 한강(漢江) (han'gang). From 한— (han-, “big”) and 강 (江, gang, “river”).

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Places.

Inflected Forms

the Han River (canonical)

Questions

What does han river mean?: A major river in South Korea that flows through Seoul.
Where does han river come from?: Partial calque of Korean 한강(漢江) (han'gang). From 한— (han-, “big”) and 강 (江, gang, “river”).

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