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Pyeongan

Pyeongan is the alternative spelling of Pyongan.

Meaning of Pyongan

Proper noun

Pyongan

  1. (historical) One of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty.
    • The West Coast line is exceedingly irregular. The Province of P’ing An, starting from the mouth of the Ya-lu River, on which stands the emporium of I-chou, extends for the larger half southward, then trending eastward, forms a large estuary, the southern side of which again pushes out some distance...[1866 May 28, correspondent at Peking, “THE WEST COAST OF COREA.”, in The London and China Telegraph, volume VIII, number 210, →OCLC, page 284, column 1

Words formed from Pyeongan

Phrases with Pyeongan

Questions about Pyeongan

What is Pyeongan the alternative spelling of?
Pyeongan is the alternative spelling of Pyongan.

Words near Pyeongan in the dictionary

  1. Pyengana
  2. Pyengyang
  3. pyeong
  4. Pyeong Chang
  5. Pyeong-Chang
  6. Pyeongan
  7. Pyeongchang
  8. Pyeonghae
  9. Pyeongtaek
  10. Pyeongyang
  11. pyes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pyeongan (page history and authors); Pyongan (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.

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