Yantai

See also: yantai, yàntai, yàntái, and Yāntái

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Yen-tai, Yen-t’ai

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Yantai

1. A coastal prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong, China.
   • 2022 May 12, “Yantai, a Fairyland in the Spring Breeze”, in EFE‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 July 2022:

     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 (zh) or 煙台 (zh), 烟台 (zh) (Yāntái)

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

Anagrams

• anitya