Yanqing

See also: yánqíng, yánqǐng, Yánqìng, yànqíng, and yànqǐng

English

Alternative forms

• Yenching

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延慶 / 延庆 (Yánqìng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌjɑːnˈt͡ʃɪŋ/

Proper noun

Yanqing

1. A district of Beijing, China.
   • 2018 August 8, “Airbnb axes Great Wall of China stay competition after conservation concerns”, in DW News‎^[1], archived from the original on 08 August 2018, News‎^[2]:

     Officials from the Yanqing district of Beijing, which houses the section of the wall that was on offer, also said in a statement they had not been notified of the event and had not approved it.

   • 2021 December 5, Matthew Futterman, “On its 4-Year Cue, Skiing Re-enters the Spotlight Ahead of Olympics”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-05, Olympics‎^[4]:

     Alpine skiing at the 2022 Olympics will take place in the Yanqing District, where it should be plenty cold but where it snows little and every flake ski racers careen across will be man-made.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 延慶 / 延庆 (jin⁴ hing³)

  Mandarin: 延慶 / 延庆 (zh) (Yánqìng)

• Japanese: 延慶 (ja) (えんけい, Enkei)
• Manchu: ᠶᠠᠨ
  ᡴᡳᠩ (yan king)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yanqing”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3515, column 2