Hamhung

English

Alternative forms

• Hamheung
• (obsolete): Ham-heng

Etymology

From McCune-Reischauer romanization Hamhŭng of Korean 함흥(咸興) (Hamheung).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑmˈhʊŋ/

Proper noun

Hamhung

1. The provincial capital of South Hamgyong Province, North Korea; the country's 2nd-largest city and 3rd-largest port.
   • 1998 July 8, Don Kirk, “A Literary Wanderer, Far From North Korea”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 20, 2024, Style‎^[2]:

     Author, editor, memoirist, Hyun isn't exactly searching for his roots. Rather, at 70, he's trying to make sense of a life that began in the industrial city of Hamhung, near the east coast of what is now North Korea, and has somehow deposited him in New York and France.

   • 2008, Robert Willoughby, “East Coast to Tanchon”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides)‎^[3], 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 175:

     Hamhung is North Korea’s second city. The birthplace of the founder of Korea’s Ri dynasty and the site of a famous battle during the Korean War, Hamhung has since developed into a spacious industrial city of around 750,000 inhabitants.

   • 2015, Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom‎^[4] (Non-fiction), Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:

     It was unusual for a North Korean woman of her status to get a higher education. But my mother was such a good scholar that she was accepted at a college in the nearby city of Hamhung. If given a choice, she would have liked to have become a doctor. But only students from better families are allowed a say in what they will study.

   • 2022 January 26, “North Korea fires two missiles as U.S. condemns flurry of tests”, in Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 28 January 2022, China:

     South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it had detected the launch of what it presumed were two ballistic missiles at about 8 a.m. (2300 GMT) from near Hamhung, on the east coast of North Korea.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hamhung.

Translations

a city in North Korea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咸興 (zh) (Xiánxìng)

• Japanese: 咸興 (はむふん, Hamufun)
• Korean: 함흥(咸興) (Hamheung)
• Russian: Хамхы́н m (Xamxýn), Хамху́н m (Xamxún)

Further reading

• “Hamhung”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Hamhung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Hamhung, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Hamhung”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Hamhung”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Hamhung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hamhung”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1223, column 2