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Hoeryong en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• hœ′rēŭng′

Etymology

From Korean 회령(會寧) (Hoeryeong).

Meanings

1. A city in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, across the Tumen River from Longjing, Yanbian, Jilin, China.
   • Every year on the tenth lunar month, a trade expedition was sent to Hoi Ryong (Hui-ning in Chinese), a Korean border town, located on the bank of the Tumen River, southeast of Ninguta, where salt, rice, iron, cloth, paper, cattle, and horses were obtained. [1970, Robert H. G. Lee, “The Geographic and Cultural Foundation of the Chʼing Manchurian Frontier Policy”, in The Manchurian frontier in Chʼing history, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 10–11:
   • In 1996, Mr. Ji was 13, his parents’ eldest son, living in a mining village near the city of Hoeryong in northern North Korea. 2018 January 31, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korean Defector, Honored by Trump, Has a Remarkable Escape Story”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2018, Asia Pacific:
   • Mr. Ahn Myong-Chol was a prison guard at Camp 22 in Hoeryong and a driver at the camps. He was there between 1990 and 1994. He is the one who reported that prisoners had been used for human experimentation inside the camps. 2013 June 18, Esther Felden, “Hell on earth”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2015:
   • Choi Hyok and his sister lost their parents in the 1990s, when more than 1m died of famine under Kim Jong-il's dictatorship. They were reduced to begging in the streets of Hoeryong in one of the poorest parts of North Korea, on the border with China. 2007 April 22, “At bay: the children who ran from Kim”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021:
   • Keep going west and you’re ultimately in the Tuman River Area, and Hoeryong border city, opposite its Chinese counterpart, Jilin. Hoeryong is known for its white apricots and as the centre of this province’s metallurgical and coal industries. Hoeryong is the base for many monuments to Kim Jong Suk, revolutionary anti-Japanese fighter[…] 2008, Robert Willoughby, “Northernmost Corner”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 192:
   • When Jeon Geum-ju was a girl in Hoeryong, a depressing mining town at the very northern reaches of North Korea, she used to sing at school about the country’s supreme leader. 2015 January 16, Anna Fifield, “North Korea begins brainwashing children in cult of the Kims as early as kindergarten”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2015, Asia & Pacific:

Forms

Synonyms

Kainei (from Japanese) · Hui-ning · Huining (from Mandarin Chinese)

Translations (2)

cmn 會寧 /会宁 (city) · ko 회령 (city)