Pakchonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Korean 박천(博川) (Bakcheon).

固有名詞

Pakchon

1. A county of North Pyongan Province, North Korea.
   • 2024 June 25, Bruce Songhak Chung, “N. Korea completes almost 70% of rice transplanting as of early June”, in Daily NK‎, archived from the original on June 27, 2024‎:

     Meanwhile, the progress rates of rice transplantation near Sukchon County, South Pyongan Province, and Pakchon County, North Pyongan Province, were 58.1% and 68.0%, respectively, compared with the progress rates of 63.0% and 75.1% at the same time in 2018. In other words, the progress rates in Sukchon and Pakchon Counties were 4.9% and 6.7% lower than the rates six years earlier.

Further reading

• Pakchon at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pakchon”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2338, column 3