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Big municipal cities are given the power to subdivide themselves into non-autonomous districts (Korean: 일반구; Hanja: 一般區). [3] However, some big municipal cities have chosen not to divide themselves into districts, such as Bucheon, Gimhae, Hwaseong, or Namyangju. Currently, South Korea has a total of 17 big cities.
There are a small number of municipalities in Japan whose names are written in hiragana or katakana, together known as kana, rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. [1] Many city names written in kana have kanji equivalents that are either phonetic manyōgana, or whose kanji are outside of the jōyō kanji.
The names for nations and cities that existed before major Japanese orthographic reforms in the Meiji era usually have ateji, or kanji characters used solely to represent pronunciation. However, the use of ateji today has become far less common, as katakana has largely taken over the role of phonetically representing words of non- Sino-Japanese ...
This is a list of cities in Asia that have several names in different languages, including former names. Many cities have different names in different languages. Some cities have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons.
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, has been called by a number of formal and informal names over time. The word seoul was originally a common noun that simply meant "capital city", and was used colloquially to refer to the capital throughout Korean history. Seoul became the official name of the South Korean capital after its liberation from ...
The issue when looking at Korean etymology after the Japanese occupation is that many inherited Korean words can be confused for Japanese loan words. Japan and Korea have historical contact that began in prehistory, and this has led to loan words between both Korea and Japan. Phonetic similarities have been used as rules to show an etymological ...
The name "Busan" is the Revised Romanization of the city's Korean name since the late 15th century. [11] It officially replaced the earlier McCune–Reischauer romanization Pusan in 2000. [ 12 ] [ b ] During the Japanese colonial period , the Japanese reading of the city's name was "Fuzan".
Administrative divisions of Korea (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.