Asan

See also: asan, asân, asán, āsān, âsân, and асан

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 아산(牙山) (Asan).

Proper noun

Asan

  1. A municipal city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
    • [1996 October, Allen Fung, “Testing the Self-Strengthening: The Chinese Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895”, in Modern Asian Studies‎[1], volume 30, number 4, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 1014:
      This policy of pursuing war and peace simultaneously was also what the Chinese commander Ye Zhizhao[sic – meaning Zhichao] in Yashan recommended: […]
      In mid-July, the British ambassador in Beijing, Nicholas O'Conor remarked that while there were as many as 10,000 Japanese soldiers in Korea, there were only 2,000 Chinese soldiers,³⁴ not to mention the fact that those Chinese troops were all stuck in Yashan, a place which was impossible to defend strategically.      ]

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