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Yen-ling

Yen-ling is the alternative form of Yanling.

Meaning of Yanling

Proper noun

Yanling

  1. A county of Xuchang, Henan, China.
    • As suggested by the Yenling County party committee and approved by the Honan party committee, the Hsuchang prefectural party committee decided to adopt disciplinary measures against (Peng Fang-hsin) and others. It also decided to expell (Chen Wen-chin) from the party and dismiss him from the post...[1978 February 22 [1978 February 18], “Honan CCP Committee Dismisses County First Secretary”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 36, Foreign Broadcast Information Service...

Origin of Yen-ling

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 鄢陵 (Yen¹-ling²).

Questions about Yen-ling

What is Yen-ling the alternative form of?
Yen-ling is the alternative form of Yanling.

Words near Yen-ling in the dictionary

  1. Yen-ching
  2. yen-hock
  3. yen-hocks
  4. yen-hok
  5. yen-hoks
  6. Yen-ling
  7. Yen-Pien
  8. Yen-t'ai
  9. Yen-tai
  10. Yen-tse
  11. Yen-tze

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yen-ling (page history and authors); Yanling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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