Seoul

Seoul Séoul English Alternative forms en Sior obsolete Etymology From en fr Séoul, from en ko ^서울 capital city, originally from Claude-Charles Dallet's French-based romanization of Korean, reinforced by the 1959 South Korean Ministry of Education romanization of Korean, which transcribed the Korean vowel ko ㅓ - ʌ with the digraph "eo" and which was official until 1984. Note that en Seoul predates the Revised Romanization romanization of Seoul. The two romanization systems simply produce identical forms. Pronunciation en /səʊl/ RP sōl GA, en /soʊl/ en En-us-sole.ogg GA en əʊl 1 en sole soul sowl Proper noun en Q8684en capital city c/South Korea, also the historical capital of Korea from 1394 until the country was divided in 1945. en 1956 w:Harry S. Truman 21 Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope https://archive.org/details/memoirsbyharryst012833mbp/ II w:Doubleday & Company 1036705143 320 https://archive.org/details/memoirsbyharryst012833mbp/page/320/ The Joint Commission provided for in the Moscow agreement began its work at Seoul, the ancient capital of Korea, on March 20, 1946. This Commission, which was, of course, the key element in the plan agreed upon at Moscow, was deadlocked almost from the start. en 2023-03-21 Dong-hwan Ko Possibly next SOHO, Seoul selects 5 neighborhoods for new signature 'K-alleys' w:The Korea Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230513151504/https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/05/113_347395.html National With almost 10 million people living in 25 different districts and the Han River through the middle, Seoul offers more than even most locals who spend a considerable amount of time have time to see for themselves. en 07 May 2023 w:Michelle Ye Hee Lee Japanese prime minister visits Seoul, resuming ‘shuttle diplomacy’ w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230507094906/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/07/japan-south-korea-yoon-kishida-meeting/ 0190-8286 2269358 Asia Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul, reciprocating Yoon’s visit to Tokyo in March. In doing so, the two leaders marked the revival of their “shuttle diplomacy” to hold negotiations in each other’s countries and work through a series of thorny issues that have complicated their ties. en metonym the South Korean government en June 21, 2022 Seoul representative taking more ‘systematic’ approach w:Taipei Times https://web.archive.org/web/20220620174920/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/06/21/2003780254 June 20, 2022 https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/06/21/2003780254 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 2 To that end, Seoul and Taipei signed a reciprocal driver’s license agreement in February, with immediate effect, to make driving easier for visitors on each side, he said. en 07 May 2023 w:Michelle Ye Hee Lee Japanese prime minister visits Seoul, resuming ‘shuttle diplomacy’ w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230507094906/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/07/japan-south-korea-yoon-kishida-meeting/ 0190-8286 2269358 Asia After years of friction, Seoul and Tokyo are trying to collaborate more closely with each other and Washington to counter the looming geopolitical threats of China’s economic and military rise and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. The Biden administration has welcomed their efforts. Synonyms historical en Hanseong from Japanese en Keijō from Mandarin Chinese en Han-ch'eng, en Hanyang Derived terms en Seoulite Translations capital of South Korea Afrikaans: af Seoel Albanian: sq Seoul m, sq Seuli m Amharic: am ሴኡል m, am ሶል m Arabic: ar سِيئُول m, ar سِيُول f, ar سُول f sōl Hijazi Arabic: acw سِيول siyōl Armenian: hy Սեուլ Assamese: as ছিউল Asturian: ast Seúl Azerbaijani: az Seul Bashkir: ba Сеул Basque: eu Seul Belarusian: be Сеу́л m, be Сэу́л m Bengali: bn সিওল, bn সউল Bulgarian: bg Сеу́л m Burmese: my ဆီယူ Carpathian Rusyn: rue Соул m Catalan: ca Seül Chinese: Cantonese: yue 首爾 sau2 ji5, yue 漢城 hon3 sing4 Eastern Min: cdo 首爾 Siū-ī, cdo 漢城 Háng-siàng Hakka: hak 首爾 Sú-ngì, hak 漢城 Hon-sàng Hokkien: nan-hbl 首爾 Siú-ní, Siú-jíⁿ, nan-hbl 漢城 Hàn-siâⁿ Mandarin: cmn 首爾 Shǒu'ěr, cmn 漢城 Hànchéng Wu: wuu 首爾, wuu 漢城 Corsican: co Seul f Czech: cs Soul m Danish: da Seoul n Dutch: nl Seoel n, nl Seoul n Esperanto: eo Seulo Estonian: et Soul Farefare: gur Sɔul Finnish: fi Soul French: fr Séoul mf Frisian: West Frisian: fy Seûl n, fy Seoel n Gagauz: gag Seul Galician: gl Seúl mf Georgian: ka სეული German: de Seoul n, rare de Söul n, de Soul n Greek: el Σεούλ f Haitian Creole: ht Seoul mf Hebrew: he סיאול Hindi: hi सिऊल m, hi सियूल m, hi सियोल m Hungarian: hu Szöul Icelandic: is Seúl n Indonesian: id Seoul Irish: ga Súl m Italian: it Seul f, it Seoul mf Jamaican Creole: jam Siol Japanese: ja ソウル Souru Jeju: jje 서울, jje 서월 Seogwipo Kabiye: kbp Sewuuli Kabyle: kab Seyul Kannada: kn ಸೌಲ್ Kashubian: csb Seul m Kazakh: kk Сеул Khmer: km សេអ៊ូល Korean: ko ^서울 Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ckb سێئول, ckb سیئۆل Northern Kurdish: kmr Sêûl Kyrgyz: ky Сеул Lao: lo ເຊອູນ Latin: New Latin la Seulum n Latvian: lv Seula f Limburgish: li Seoel n Lingala: ln Sɔul, ln Seoul Lithuanian: lt Seulas m Luri: Northern Luri: lrc سئوٙل seyūl Macedonian: mk Сеул m Malay: ms Seoul Malayalam: ml സോൾ Maltese: mt Seul m Māori: mi Heora Marathi: mr सोल n Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Сөүл Nahuatl: nah Seul Nepali: ne सिउल, ne सोल Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Seoul Occitan: oc Seol m Odia: or ସିଓଲ Pashto: ps سېول seūl, ps سیول siyūl Persian: fa سئول se'ul Picard: pcd Séoul Pitcairn-Norfolk: pih Soel Polish: pl Seul m Portuguese: pt Seul mf Punjabi: pa ਸਿਓਲ m Quechua: qu Siyul, qu Seul Romanian: ro Seul n Russian: ru Сеу́л m Samogitian: sgs Seuls m Sardinian: sc Seul f Scots: sco Seoul Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Сеул m Latin: sh Seul m Sicilian: scn Seul f Sindhi: sd سيول siyūl Sinhalese: si සෝල් Slovak: sk Soul m Slovene: sl Seul m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb Soul m Upper Sorbian: hsb Seoul m Spanish: es Seúl m Swedish: sv Söul n, sv Seoul n Tagalog: tl Seúl, tl Seoul, tl Seyúl, tl Seyol Tajik: tg Сеул Tamil: ta சியோல் Tatar: tt Сеул Telugu: te సియోల్ Thai: th โซล, obsolete th เซอูล Tibetan: bo སེ་ཨུལ Tok Pisin: tpi Sol Turkish: tr Seul Turkmen: tk Seul Ukrainian: uk Сеу́л m Urdu: ur سیئول m siyūl, ur سیول m seūl, ur سؤل m sawūl Uyghur: ug سېئول Uzbek: uz Seul Vietnamese: vi Xơ-un, vi Xê-un, vi Hán Thành (vi 漢城) Walloon: wa Seyoul mf Yakut: sah Сеул Yiddish: yi סעאָל n Zhuang: za Soujwj the name of Seoul during the Joseon dynasty Hanseong the name of Seoul during the Japanese occupation period in the early 20th century Keijō Hanyang See also en Pyongyang, capital city of North Korea References pn Further reading Anagrams en elosu Eolus Soule eusol loues louse oules ousel soule Danish Etymology From da ko ^서울 capital city. Proper noun da proper noun da capital c/South Korea Seoul Dutch Proper noun n nl Seoel Estonian Pronunciation soul et oul 1 et Seoul et soul Proper noun Seouli Seouli et Soul Declension Seoul i sg References German de: Alternative forms de Söul Soul both rare Etymology de ko ^서울 capital city. Pronunciation de /seˈuːl/ /sɔʊ̯l/ /soːl/ /zeˈuːl/ /zɔʊ̯l/ /zoːl/ de uːl ɔʊ̯l oːl 1 de De-Seoul.ogg /sɔʊ̯l/ <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Soul some pronunciations de Se oul Proper noun toponym de capital city c/South Korea Seoul Italian Proper noun mf it Seul Anagrams it elosu eluso esulo esulò suole Norwegian Bokmål nb: 250px|thumb|Panoramic skyline photo of Seoul, South-Korea. Etymology From nb ko 서울 Seoul, from nb okm 셔ᄫᅳᆯ capital city, possibly from nb oko 徐羅伐 ko ^서라벌. Pronunciation nb /sɔʊl/ nb nb-seoul.ogg nb ɔʊl nb Seoul Proper noun nb proper noun nb capital city r/Seoul Capital Area c/South Korea Seoul, also the historical capital of Korea from 1394 until the country was forcibly divided in 1945. nb Under Koreakrigen i 1950–1953 ble Seoul sterkt ødelagt. During the Korean War in 1950–1953, Seoul was severely destroyed. References “Seoul” in Store norske leksikon Swedish Proper noun n sv Söul