Tanchon

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 단천(端川) (Dancheon).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tänʹchǔnʹ[1]

Proper noun

Tanchon

  1. A port city in northeastern South Hamgyong Province, North Korea.
    • 2016 August 11, Jean H. Lee, “North Korean Gymnast’s Selfie Goes Viral, but Her Bio Is Sparse”, in The New York Times‎[2], sourced from SEOUL, South Korea, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2024, Olympics:
      She was born in the port city of Tanchon in South Hamgyong province in the far north and raised in the industrial city of Hamhung, and is described in the book as the baby of the family, the youngest of three children.
    • 2023 April 7, KIM TONG-HYUNG, “North Korea claims another test of underwater nuclear drone”, in AP News‎[3], archived from the original on 8 April 2023‎[4]:
      The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said the drone, named “Haeil-2" after a Korean word meaning tsunamis or tidal waves, traveled underwater for more than 71 hours before successfully detonating a mock warhead in waters near the eastern port city of Tanchon on Friday.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tanchon”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1873, column 1
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.