Rasŏn

• Rason, Raseon, Naseon

Borrowed from Korean 라선(羅先) (Raseon), from 라진(羅津) (Rajin) + 선봉(先鋒) (Seonbong), the two districts that form the city.

Rasŏn

1. A city in North Korea.
   • 2012 August 13, Choe Sang-hun, “North Korea Reported to Be Pursuing Industrial Project With China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 14, 2012, Asia Pacific‎:

     North Korea also opened a free-trade zone in Rason, at its northeastern corner, in the 1990s.

• The initial "R" is replaced with "N" (or with nothing or other consonants in other examples) in the South Korean standard, which is also reflected in the spelling, the jamo ㄹ (l) is replaced with ㄴ (n). The modern standard South Korean romanisation does not use ŏ to romanize the vowel [ʌ̹] (jamo: ㅓ (eo)) as is still done in North Korea, a digraph eo is used instead.

• Rajin-Sŏnbong

• SONAR, arson, orans, roans, saron, sonar, sorna