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Yen-t'ai

Yen-t'ai is the alternative form of Yantai.

Meaning of Yantai

Proper noun

Yantai

  1. A coastal prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong, China.
    • In September, the largest factory in Yantai, a coastal city in northeastern China, called on the local government with a problem — a shortage of 19,000 workers as the deadline on a big order approached.2013 January 7, “Students by Millions Fill Labor Gap in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2013, Global Business
    Synonyms:
    Chefoo
  2. (historical) Zhifu, a former village in northeastern Shandong, China, which grew into modern Yantai.
  3. A village in the township of Haidao, Xiapu County in the prefecture-level city of Ningde, Fujian, China.

Origin of Yen-t'ai

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 煙臺 /烟台 (Yen¹-tʻai²).

Questions about Yen-t'ai

What is Yen-t'ai the alternative form of?
Yen-t'ai is the alternative form of Yantai.

Words near Yen-t'ai in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yen-t'ai (page history and authors); Yantai (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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