not originate from hanja. The official Chinese translation is written as 首爾/首尔, which is a transcription based on the pronunciation of "Seoul", but 漢城/汉城...

Sejong Notes: There are no Hanja for "Seoul"; in Chinese, it is written as 首爾/首尔 (pinyin: Shǒu'ěr), a transcription based on the pronunciation of "Seoul"...

for Seoul: Chinese: 首爾; Chinese: 首尔; pinyin: Shǒu'ěr. The name was chosen by a select committee out of two names, the other being 首午爾; Shǒuwu'ěr. The chosen...

historic Hànchéng to Shǒu'ěr (首尔; 首爾). Shǒu'ěr is a phono-semantic match incorporating both sound and meaning (through 首 meaning 'head', 'chief', 'first')...

Original text: 王曰：「嗟！我友邦塚君御事，司徒、司鄧、司空，亞旅、師氏，千夫長、百夫長，及庸，蜀、羌、髳、微、盧、彭、濮人。稱爾戈，比爾干，立爾矛，予其誓。」 Sanxingdui Museum; Wu Weixi; Zhu Yarong (2006). The Sanxingdui...