Yanta

See also: yanta and yantá

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雁塔.

Proper noun

Yanta

1. A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
   • 2004 April 2, Jinliang Shan, “Don't Stand So Close to Him”, in Beijing Today‎^[1], number 148, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:

     It was an unusual case for Yanta District People’s Intermediate Court in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province on March 25. The suspect was standing in court wearing a white mask and rubber gloves and the bailiffs were keeping their distance. It was because the defendant, Mu, had AIDS.

   • 2015, Sha Li, “Jintian wo hui dao Beijing Today I return to Beijing”, in Wounds of Attachment‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27:

     It’s cloudy at dusk at the Xi’an Huoche Zhan, 6:40PM Monday evening, when they step out into the night. […]
     FONG takes them to his cousin’s Hupan Hostel, a 1980s row house conversion in the Yanta District. […]
     The Xi’an gang driver, Jinfeng, follows Henry FONG with DONG ZhiWei and WEI ZengJiu in a black Brilliance.

   • 2022 January 3, “China removes two officials in locked-down Xi'an”, in France 24‎^[3], archived from the original on 3 January 2022‎^[4]:

     On Sunday, Xi'an announced that two senior Communist Party officials from the Yanta district had been removed from their posts, according to local media, in a bid to "strengthen the work of epidemic prevention and control" in the area.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雁塔 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Tanay, Tanya, natya, tanya