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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 thet).
Pronunciation
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| Revised Romanization? | Cheorwon |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | Cheol'won |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | Ch'ŏrwŏn |
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| Yale Romanization? | chel.wen |
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Proper noun
철원 • (Cheorwon) (hanja 鐵原)
- Cheorwon (a county of Gangwon Province, South Korea)
- Chorwon (a county of Kangwon Province, North Korea)