Antu

See also: antu

English

Etymology 1

Akkadian 𒀭𒌈.

Proper noun

Antu

1. A Mesopotamian goddess, the feminine counterpart of Anu.
   • 2019 January 8, Christine Proust, John Steele, Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk, Springer, →ISBN, page 248:

     [...] since the goddess Antu did not hold a prominent status at Uruk before the fifth century. The primary purpose of MLC 1890 was evidently to present Antu as universal goddess and all-encompassing cosmic location.

   • 2021 April 13, Angelika Berlejung, Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations: Studies on the History of Religion and Anthropology of the Ancient Near East and the Old Testament, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 212:

     Line 3 of MLC 1890 clearly introduces Antu as the goddess par excellence by juxtaposing […]

   • 2021 November 8, Paul-Alain Beaulieu, The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period, BRILL, →ISBN, page 310:

     There is no mention of the goddess Antu in texts from Uruk prior to the first millennium. In the Neo - Babylonian period she occurs only in YOS 3,62, a letter sent to the šatammu of Eanna.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Antu.

Etymology 2

Map including An-t'u 安圖) (center left) (AMS, 1956)

From Mandarin 安圖／安图 (Āntú, literally “pacify the Tumen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnˈtu/, /ˈæn-/, enPR: änʹto͞oʹ

Proper noun

Antu

1. A county of Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
   • 1954 December 1, “Chinese Cite Airlift Methods of U.S. Spies”, in Daily Worker‎^[2], volume XXI, number 239, New York, page 2, column 2:

     The map was of the Antu county of Laoling with a scale of one to 250,000, “the locality where Downey and Fecteau were scheduled to pick up agent Li Chun Ying from their aircraft,” the broadcast said and added that the spot was "clearly marked with a pencil."

   • 1954 December 25, “Uniformed Spy is a Spy, Says Legal Expert Ch’en T’i-ch’iang”, in Jerome Alan Cohen, Hungdah Chiu, editors, People's China and International Law: A Documentary Study‎^[3], volume 1, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, published 1974, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 636:

     On their persons they had a detailed map of Antu County in Kirin Province of China and a Chinese-English conversation sheet. Downey admitted that earlier he had trained agents who were air-dropped into China and had contacted them.

   • 1969, Bong Baik, “Large-Troop Circling Operations that Terrified Japanese Imperialism”, in Kim Il Sung Biography: From Birth to Triumphant Return to Homeland‎^[4], volume I, Tokyo: Miraisha, →OCLC, page 464:

     The tactics of the General culminated in victory in the battle of Hualatzu, Antu county in March 1940, the battle of Yangtsaokou, Tungnancha, Antu county in April, the battle of Shihliping, Holung county in May and the subsequent battle of Yulangtsun, Holung county.

   • 1972, Chi Hsin, “Where the Sunghua River Flows”, in The Seeds and Other Stories‎^[5], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 145:

     Our first stop is in Antu County, Kirin Province, a rugged and hilly extension of the Changpai foothills. The temperature in midsummer lingers around 20° C.

   • 1980 [1937 March 29], Kim Il-sung, “Let Us Inspire the People with Hopes of National Liberation by Advancing with Large Forces into the Motherland”, in Kim Il Sung Works‎^[6], volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 126:

     In this large-scale operation of advance into the homeland we plan to dispatch the KPRA in three directions: The main unit will cross the Amnok River and push towards Hyesan, a strongpoint of frontier guards of the Japanese imperialists; another unit is to skirt Mt. Paektu and push on, by way of Antu and Helong, to the northern border area adjoining the Tuman River; and the third unit is to advance as far as the Linjiang and Changbai areas on the shore of the Amnok River.

   • 2017 September 6, Stephen Chen, “China detects rising radiation levels in areas close to North Korean nuclear blast site”, in South China Morning Post‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 September 2017, Diplomacy & Defense‎^[8]:

     The radiation level in Changbai Korean autonomous county – the closest Chinese urban area to the Punggye-ri test facility – climbed gradually from an average of 104.9 nanograys per hour immediately after the test on Sunday to 108.5 on Tuesday, according to figures released by China’s environment ministry. […]
     Similar upward trends were reported by monitoring stations in other regions, including in Antu county at the foot of Changbai Mountain and in Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture further north.

   • 2018 September 20, Joonho Kim, Joshua Lipes, “North Korea Shuts Down Illegal Cell Phone Access to Chinese Networks Amid Kim-Moon Summit”, in Leejin Jun, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[9], archived from the original on 20 September 2018:

     The source said that a friend from Jilin’s Antu county had told him that only border crossing between the two nations by land, across North Korea’s sacred Mt. Paekdu—known in China as Mt. Changbai—had been closed from Sept. 17-21.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Antu.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安圖／安图 (zh) (Āntú)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Antu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[10], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 154, column 1

Etymology 3

Mexican surname of unexplained origin.

Proper noun

Antu (plural Antus)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Antu is the 41038^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 531 individuals. Antu is most common among Hispanic/Latino (90.58%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Antu”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 46.