Hamhung
English
Alternative forms
- Hamheung
- (obsolete): Ham-heng
Etymology
From McCune-Reischauer romanization Hamhŭng of Korean 함흥(咸興) (Hamheung).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɑmˈhʊŋ/
Proper noun
Hamhung
- The provincial capital of South Hamgyong province, North Korea; the country's 2nd-largest city and 3rd-largest port.
- 2008, Willoughby, Robert, “East Coast to Tanchon”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, OCLC 1028345136, OL 12569771M, page 175:
- 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.
- 2015, Park, Yeonmi; Maryanne Vollers, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Non-fiction), Penguin Books, →ISBN, OCLC 1003656055, page 33:
- 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.
- 2022 January 26, “North Korea fires two missiles as U.S. condemns flurry of tests”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 28 January 2022, China:
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hamhung.
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Translations
a city in North Korea
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Further reading
- “Hamhung”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Hamhung, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- Hamhung at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Hamhung”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “Hamhung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.