Yanji

See also: yānjī, Yánjí, and yǎnjì

English

Alternative forms

• Yenchi (Wade–Giles)
• Yenki (Postal Romanization)

Etymology

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 延吉 (Yánjí)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jænˈd͡ʒiː/, /jɑnˈd͡ʒiː/

Proper noun

Yanji

2. A county-level city in Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
   • [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^[2], Paragon Book Gallery, →OCLC, page 406:

     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 China, and to open Lungchingtsun (龍井村) along with three other places to foreign residence and trade. A Chinese Custom House was accordingly opened here on 1st January 1910, but was made subordinate to the Hunchun (琿春) Customs.² It remained in this subordinate position till July 1924 when the head office was transferred to Lungchingtsun,³ while Hunchun—at which in accordance with the Manchurian Convention of 1905 a Custom House had been opened on 27th December 1909—fell into the position of a branch office. The reason for this deposition of Hunchun was the advent in 1923 of the T’ien T’u (天圖) light railway which running through Lungchingtsun to Yen Chi Fu (延吉府) connected both places with the frontier district of Kaishantun, and thence through Kainei (Hui Ning 會甯) to the Corean port of Seishin.]

   • 1980 [1931 December 16], Il-sung Kim, “On Organizing and Waging Armed Struggle Against Japanese Imperialism”, in Kim Il Sung Works‎^[3], volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 38:

     In eastern Manchuria alone, there is a growing tendency to refuse to surrender among the army units stationed in Helong and Yanji; thousands of soldiers, in groups or individually, have already risen up in Wangqing, Antu and other districts.

   • 2016 September 24, Anna Fifield, “North Korea shows no sign of wanting to talk about releasing two Americans”, in The Washington Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-09-24, Asia & Pacific‎^[5]:

     In a separate case, North Korea in April sentenced 62-year-old Kim Dong-chul to 10 years in prison with hard labor for “perpetrating . . . subversive plots and espionage” against the state.
     Kim, who became an American citizen in 1987 and lived in Fairfax County, Va., moved in 2001 to the Chinese city of Yanji, on the border with North Korea.

   • 2017 September 26, Chris Buckley, “Snapshots Along the River Where China Meets North Korea”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-26‎^[7]:

     I traveled from Yanji to Dandong, along China’s border with North Korea, to learn how tensions are affecting life there.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 延吉 (zh) (Yánjí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 옌지 (yenji), 연길(延吉) (ko) (yeon'gil)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yanji”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3515, column 1