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Yanta

Syllables: Yan·ta

Yanta proper noun: a district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

Yanta

  1. A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • It was an unusual case for Yanta District People’s Intermediate Court in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province on March 25. The suspect was standing in court wearing a white mask and rubber gloves and the bailiffs were keeping their distance. It was because the defendant, Mu, had AIDS.2004 April 2, Jinliang Shan, “Don't Stand So Close to Him”, in Beijing Today, number 148, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1
    • It’s cloudy at dusk at the Xi’an Huoche Zhan, 6:40PM Monday evening, when they step out into the night.[…]
      FONG takes them to his cousin’s Hupan Hostel, a 1980s row house conversion in the Yanta District.[…]
      The Xi’an gang driver, Jinfeng, follows Henry FONG with DONG ZhiWei and WEI ZengJiu in a...2015, Sha Li, “Jintian wo hui dao Beijing Today I return to Beijing”, in Wounds of Attachment, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27

Origin of Yanta

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雁塔.

Questions about Yanta

What does Yanta mean?
Yanta means a district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Yanta?
Yanta is a proper noun.

Words near Yanta in the dictionary

  1. Yanshan
  2. Yanshi
  3. Yanshuei
  4. Yanshui
  5. Yant
  6. Yanta
  7. Yantabulla
  8. Yantai
  9. Yantarne
  10. Yantis
  11. Yantises

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