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yangpan

yangpan is the alternative spelling of yangban.

Meaning of yangban

Noun

yangban (plural yangbans or yangban)

  1. (historical) A member of the ruling class of male Confucian intellectuals in Korea at and before the time of the Korean Empire.
    • One yangban, Yi Sŭng-hun, provided a new answer to this crisis of authority: while in Beijing serving as a diplomat, he was baptized a Catholic Christian and went home to propagate his faith.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 900

Forms of yangpan

pluralyangpans
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Questions about yangpan

What is yangpan the alternative spelling of?
Yangpan is the alternative spelling of yangban.

Words near yangpan in the dictionary

  1. Yangon
  2. yangona
  3. yangonas
  4. yangonin
  5. Yangoura
  6. yangpan
  7. yangpans
  8. Yangpu
  9. yangqin
  10. yangqins
  11. Yangqu

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