Word.ws English Dictionary

Han-ch'eng

Han-ch'eng proper noun: synonym of Seoul: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Proper noun

Han-ch'eng

  1. Synonym of Seoul: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • They go from one Westerner’s house to another, stating in the most abusive language that if these Westerners do not leave Korea immediately, they will be killed in due course. All the Westerners in Han-ch’eng [Seoul] are greatly frightened.1969 [1893 April 6], Yüan Shih-k’ai, quotee, “Li Hung-chang: The Eastern Learning Society”, in Dun J. Li, editor, China in Transition, 1517-1911, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 210
    • The capital of the kingdom was at Han-ch’eng (漢城), called Seoul in English.1985 June, Chi-yun Chang, “Confucianism in Eastern Nations”, in Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review, volume XXVI, number 2, Taipei: Chinese Culture University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7
    Synonyms:
    Seoul

Synonyms of Han-ch'eng

Origin of Han-ch'eng

From Mandarin 漢城 (Hànchéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Han⁴-chʻêng².

Questions about Han-ch'eng

What does Han-ch'eng mean?
Han-ch'eng means synonym of Seoul: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
What part of speech is Han-ch'eng?
Han-ch'eng is a proper noun.

Words near Han-ch'eng in the dictionary

  1. Han'airike
  2. Han'dahaa
  3. Han'daidhoo
  4. Han'dhebalanerehaa
  5. han't
  6. Han-ch'eng
  7. Han-ch'uan
  8. Han-chung
  9. han-geul
  10. Han-k'ou
  11. Han-tan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Han-ch'eng (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Han-ch'eng.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/han-ch%27eng. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.