Jinsen

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 仁川.

Proper noun

Jinsen

  1. Archaic form of Incheon, a major city in South Korea
    • 2014, Morgan Rielly, “Phil Curran: Choose Your Friends Carefully”, in Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons from Maine's Greatest Generation‎ (Biography), Camden, Maine: Down East Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111:
      Barbey and his staff arrived at Jinsen (now Incheon), Korea, on September 8. The next day, the Japanese emperor surrendered all his country’s ground and air forces in Korea south of the 38th parallel to Admiral Barbey’s group of officers, led by General Hodge and Admiral Kinkaid.
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