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Yenpien

Yenpien is the alternative form of Yanbian.

Meaning of Yanbian

Proper noun (1)

Yanbian

  1. A Korean autonomous prefecture of Jilin, China.
    • Korean is spoken by a sizable minority in the North-eastern provinces. Yet forty-six percent of all Koreans in China, 540,000 people, live in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous District along the Tumen river.1975, “The National Minority Languages of China”, in Winfred P. Lehmann, editor, Language and Linguistics in the People's Republic of China, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124
    Synonyms:
    Yeonbyeon

Proper noun (2)

Yanbian

  1. A county of Panzhihua, Sichuan, China.
    • On the winding road back to Futian, Mr. Tian told me that he had migrated to Futian from Yanbian County, in the northwestern part of Panzhihua Municipality, and had been working at the coking plant for more than two years.2010, Bryan Tilt, “Saying Farewell to Communal Capital”, in The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN...

Origin of Yenpien

From Mandarin 延邊／延边 (Yánbiān) Wade-Giles romanization: Yen²-pien¹.

From Mandarin 鹽邊／盐边 (Yánbiān) Wade-Giles romanization: Yen²-pien¹.

Questions about Yenpien

What is Yenpien the alternative form of?
Yenpien is the alternative form of Yanbian.

Words near Yenpien in the dictionary

  1. yennies
  2. yenning
  3. Yennora
  4. yenny
  5. yenom
  6. Yenpien
  7. yens
  8. Yensembam
  9. Yenser
  10. Yenshenbam
  11. Yenshih

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yenpien (page history and authors); Yanbian (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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