철원

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 鐵原.

Ultimately from the Goguryeo administrative unit 철원 (鐵圓, Cheorwon) in the same region, itself a more Sinitic-looking rewriting of a native place name now read in Sino-Korean as 모을동비 (毛乙冬非, mo'euldongbi). The first element of the native name (毛乙), a hunju-eumjong writing of the ancestor of Middle Korean 털 (Yale: thel, “hair”), was rewritten by a phonogramic 鐵 (MC tʰet̚).

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰʌ̹ɾwʌ̹n]
Phonetic hangul: [처뤈]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	Cheorwon
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	Cheol'won
McCune–Reischauer^?	Ch'ŏrwŏn
Yale Romanization^?	chel.wen

Proper noun

철원 • (Cheorwon) (hanja 鐵原)

Cheorwon (a county of Gangwon, South Korea)
Chorwon (a county of Kangwon, North Korea)