Chongjinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Korean 청진(淸津) (Cheongjin).

発音

• enPR: chǔngʹjēnʹ

固有名詞

Chongjin

1. A city in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, the third largest city in North Korea.
   • 2013 February 5, Max Fisher, “The Cannibals of North Korea”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 February 2017, WorldViews‎:

     There were times and places in North Korea in the mid-1990s, as a great famine wiped out perhaps 10 percent of the population, that children feared to sleep in the open. Some of them had wandered in from the countryside to places like Chongjin, an industrial town on the coast, where they lived on streets and in railroad stations.

   • 2013 July 26, Benjamin Mack, “Behind the curtain”, in DW News‎, archived from the original on 13 September 2015‎:

     "The North Hamgyong Provincial E-Library has 301 computers," translates Suh Byung Kim, the wiry 34-year-old guide, as the head librarian speaks Korean. "It is open every day at 10 a.m. Every person in the provincial capital Chongjin can use them," he says to a group of Westerners visiting the location.

   • 2014 November 1, Tony Bonnici, “US tourist held in North Korea felt ‘compelled to leave Bible’”, in The Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 August 2023‎:

     Mr Fowle said he left the Bible with his name in it in a bathroom under a bin at a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin and hoped a Christian would find it.

   • 2021 August 4, Hahna Yoon, “Tracing Freedom to a Pair of Jeans”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 August 2021‎:

     “When I lived in North Korea, I never had the freedom to wear what I wanted, but I never questioned it because I didn’t know this freedom existed,” said Jihyun Kang, 31, who grew up in Chongjin, the third-largest city in North Korea.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chongjin.

同意語

• (from Japanese) Seishin
• (from Mandarin Chinese) Qingjin

参照

Further reading

• “Chongjin”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Chongjin, Qingjin, Seishin at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Chongjin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Chongjin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Chongjin” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chongjin”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 791, column 3