Word.ws English Dictionary

Iwon

Iwon is the alternative form of Riwon.

Meaning of Riwon

Proper noun

Riwon

  1. A town in South Hamgyong, North Korea.
  2. The surrounding county in South Hamgyong, North Korea.
  3. The adjacent bay, an inlet of the East Korea Bay in the Sea of Japan.

Origin of Iwon

From Korean 이원(利原) (iwon), from either McCune-Reischauer Iwŏn or Revised Romanization Iwon.

Questions about Iwon

What is Iwon the alternative form of?
Iwon is the alternative form of Riwon.

Words near Iwon in the dictionary

  1. iwis
  2. IWLT
  3. Iwnw
  4. Iwo Jima
  5. Iwo To
  6. Iwon
  7. IWW
  8. IWWD
  9. iwys
  10. IX
  11. ix-nay

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Iwon (page history and authors); Riwon (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: “Iwon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/iwon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.