wonsan
/wɒnˈsæn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A city in Kangwon Province, North Korea.
Example Sentences
- "The first Korean members of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing have been received into the novitiate of the congregation at Wonsan. They were accompanied by a European candidate whose father is a Government official in Korea."
- "After graduating from a Seoul university, Park's brother settled in the North Korean coastal town of Wonsan as a dentist in 1946. After the war broke out, Park was told by a co-worker that his brother refused to flee to the South because he had a family in the North and was a surgeon in the North Korean army. Park fought for the South as a student soldier and was among the allied troops who took over Wonsan in October 1950. The U.S.-led forces advanced farther north in the following weeks before being driven back by a mass of Chinese forces after Beijing intervened in the conflict."
- "The boat's 15 Russian and two South Korean crew members were detained in the port of Wonsan and faced accusations of entering North Korean territorial waters without permission.[…] "At 19:30, the vessel left the Wonsan port's pier and headed to Sokcho (South Korea), where two South Korean crewmembers will come ashore," it said."
- "On Wednesday, the South Korean military announced the detection of the launch of several unidentified cruise projectiles from the port city of Wonsan, in the east of the neighboring country, the fifth such North Korean test so far this year."
Etymology
From Korean 원산(元山) (Wonsan).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^원산(元山)