Etymology

Donghak

D2O1N1G2H4A1K5

Today it means: An academic movement in Korean Neo-Confucianism, founded in 1860 by Choe Je-u, that arose as a reaction to seohak (西學, "Western learning") and gradually evolved into the religion known as Cheondoism. Full definition →

Korean 동학
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Korean · borrowed from동학
  2. English todayDonghak

Borrowed from Korean 동학 (donghak, literally “Eastern learning”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.