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Yanjin

Syllables: Yan·jin

Yanjin proper noun: a county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.

Proper noun (1)

Yanjin

  1. A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
    • Three counties in Honan along the old course of the Yellow River in an area with poor soil covering either sandy and saline-alkali land or fields liable to drought or waterlogging, waged stubborn struggles against the natural disasters of flood, salinity and alkalinity, drought, and sandstorms. In...[1975, “Three Former Grain-Deficient Provinces Show Surpluses”, in New China's First Quarter-Century [新中国的二十五年], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, sourced from Hsinhua News Agency and...
    • The revolutionary committee of Yenchin county, Honan province, mobilized the masses to first, examine what living ideas the cadres transferred to lower levels have; secondly[…][1978, Warren Kuo, editor, A Comprehensive Glossary of Chinese Communist Terminology, →OCLC, page 220, column 1

Proper noun (2)

Yanjin

  1. A county of Zhaotong, Yunnan, China.

Origin of Yanjin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延津 (Yánjīn).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鹽津 /盐津.

Questions about Yanjin

What does Yanjin mean?
Yanjin means a county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
What part of speech is Yanjin?
Yanjin is a proper noun.

Words near Yanjin in the dictionary

  1. Yanina
  2. Yanito
  3. Yanitos
  4. Yanity
  5. Yanji
  6. Yanjin
  7. Yanjing
  8. yank
  9. yank around
  10. yank off
  11. yank one's crank

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