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Chinese
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head; chief; first (occasion) head; chief; first (occasion); first (thing); measure word for poems
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phonetic
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trad. (首爾)
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首
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爾
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simp. (首尔)
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首
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尔
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Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 서울 (Seoul). The first character 首 (shǒu, “first”) is a phono-semantic matching from Korean. Compare 首都 (shǒudū, “capital”)[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
首爾
- (~市) Seoul (the capital city of South Korea)
Usage notes
- 漢城/汉城 (Hànchéng) was the name used for the city until 2005, when the city government changed its official Chinese name to 首爾/首尔 (Shǒu'ěr). 漢城/汉城 (Hànchéng) remains to be used in unofficial settings.
- The use of the original name 漢城/汉城 (Hànchéng) is dispreferred in both Koreas. The name 首爾/首尔 (Shǒu'ěr) was specifically designed for transliterating the Korean name 서울 (Seoul) into modern Standard Chinese and is not a Korean hanja (Sino-Korean) representation of the city name, which doesn't have a hanja form.
Synonyms
- 漢城/汉城 (Hànchéng) (dated or colloquial)
References
- ^ 李源 (2014 April 27) ““汉城”是如何改名为“首尔””, in 成都商报, archived from the original on 31 March 2019