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Yenchi

Yenchi is the alternative form of Yanji.

Meaning of Yanji

Proper noun

Yanji

  1. A county-level city of Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
    • The influx into the Chientao (間島) of Corean farmers, hunters, and trappers had long been a burning question before the Governments of China and Japan finally agreed by the Chientao Convention of 1909 or China-Corean Frontier Agreement to recognize the Tumen river as the boundary between Corea and...[1938, Stanley F. Wright, “From the Revision that Failed to the Peking Tariff Conference of 1925-1926”, in China's Struggle for Tariff Autonomy: 1843-1938, Paragon Book Gallery, →OCLC, page 406

Origin of Yenchi

From Mandarin 延吉 (Yánjí), Wade–Giles romanization: Yen²-chi².

Questions about Yenchi

What is Yenchi the alternative form of?
Yenchi is the alternative form of Yanji.

Words near Yenchi in the dictionary

  1. yenap
  2. yenaps
  3. Yenbo
  4. Yench
  5. Yencheng
  6. Yenchi
  7. Yenching
  8. Yenda
  9. Yendang
  10. Yendembam
  11. yender

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yenchi (page history and authors); Yanji (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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