Changwon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 창원(昌原) (Chang'won).

Proper noun

Changwon

1. A city in Gyeongsang, South Korea.
   • 2023 February 13, Julian Ryall, “South Korea steps up efforts to root out the North's agents”, in DW News‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 February 2023, Politics‎^[2]:

     Members of the group, who have not been named, also greeted North Korean athletes when the city of Changwon hosted the ISSF World Shooting Championships in 2018, according to Yonhap News, and were seen waving flags promoting the unification of the peninsula.

Translations

a city in South Korea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 昌原 (zh) (Chāngyuán)

• Japanese: 昌原 (チャンウォン, Chanwon)
• Korean: 창원(昌原) (Chang'won)
• Russian: Чханво́н m (Čxanvón)

Further reading

• Changwon at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changwon”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 726, column 3