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say it: PYAWNG-yang
pyongyang is a noun meaning "capital of North Korea and an industrial center". It is pronounced /ˈpjɔŋˈjæŋ/ — PYAWNG-yang. It carries one recorded sense.
capital of North Korea and an industrial center
“Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city but little of its history has been preserved”
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pyongyang come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.