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riwon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ri-won
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town in South Hamgyong, North Korea.

name

The surrounding county in South Hamgyong, North Korea.

name

The adjacent bay, an inlet of the East Korea Bay in the Sea of Japan.

Etymology

From Korean 리원(利原) (riwon), from either McCune-Reischauer Riwŏn or Revised Romanization Riwon.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: 리원(利原)

Inflected Forms

Riwŏn (alternative) Iwon (alternative) Iwŏn (alternative)

Questions

What does riwon mean?
A town in South Hamgyong, North Korea.
Where does riwon come from?
It is traced to Korean.

How to pronounce riwon

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