Yantai

See also: yantai, yàntai, yàntái, and Yāntái

English

Alternative forms

• Yen-tai, Yen-t’ai (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Chinese 煙臺 / 烟台 (Yāntái, “smoke tower”), from a Ming-era signal tower on Mount Qi.

Proper noun

Yantai

1. A coastal prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong, China.
   • 2013 January 7, “Students by Millions Fill Labor Gap in China”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-01-12, Global Business‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2022 May 12, “Yantai, a Fairyland in the Spring Breeze”, in EFE‎^[3], archived from the original on 13 July 2022‎^[4]:

     It’s the time of early spring in Yantai, the central city on the Shandong Peninsula. The trees are quietly stretching new branches and sprouting fresh green buds, spreading out the turquoise of cyan on the piece of the land.

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.

Synonyms

• (coastal city in Shandong, China): (dated) Chefoo

Translations

a city of China

• Arabic: يَانْتَاي m (yantay)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙臺 / 烟台 (zh) (Yāntái) or 煙台 (zh) (Yāntái)

• Hungarian: Jentaj (hu)
• Japanese: 煙台 (えんたい, Entai)
• Korean: 연태 (Yeontae)
• Macedonian: Ја́нтај m (Jántaj)
• Russian: Яньта́й m (Janʹtáj)
• Vietnamese: Yên Đài

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Taniya, anitya, Tianya