협서

Korean

Sino-Korean word from 陜西, from a misreading of the hanja 陝 (seom) for the visually nearly identical 陜 (hyeop).

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	Hyeopseo
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	Hyeobseo
McCune–Reischauer^?	Hyŏpsŏ
Yale Romanization^?	hyep.se

협서 • (Hyeopseo) (hanja 陜西)

(proscribed) Nonstandard form of 섬서(陝西) (Seomseo, “Shaanxi (a province of China)”).

This form most commonly appears in wuxia novels.

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