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English
Etymology
From Japanese 平壤 (Heijō), the spelling 平壤 or its shinjitai form 平壌 are still used but now normally pronounced as ピョンヤン (Pyon'yan) in Japanese.
Proper noun
Heijō (uncountable)
- (historical) The name of Pyongyang during the Japanese occupation period in the early 20th century.
1952, Suyeji Umehara, “The Newly Discovered Tombs with Wall Paintings of the Kao-kou-li Dynasty”, in Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, volume 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:Among investigations of ancient sites made by Japanese scholars in the Korean Peninsula during the past forty yeas, there are some which have attracted the attention of scholars of the world. One of these was the excavation of the Lo-lang sites of the Han dynasty centering about Heijōᵃ (P'ing-jang); the other was the discovery of the Kao-kou-li tombs with wall paintings in the neighborhood of Heijō and in the in the vicinity of T'ung-kou, Chi-an shêng,ᵇ Manchuria, in the north.
Translations
(historical) the name of Pyongyang during the Japanese occupation period in the early 20th century
Japanese
Romanization
Heijō
- Rōmaji transcription of へいじょう