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Yenki

Yenki 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 Yenki

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 延吉 (Yánjí), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Questions about Yenki

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

Words near Yenki in the dictionary

  1. Yenisey
  2. Yenish
  3. Yenissei
  4. Yenisseian
  5. yenite
  6. Yenki
  7. yenless
  8. Yenna
  9. yenned
  10. yennep
  11. yenneps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yenki (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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