Yenki

English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 延吉 (Yánjí).

Proper noun

Yenki

1. Alternative form of Yanji
   • 1919 August 1, The Shantung Question: A Statement of China's Claim Together with Important Documents Submitted to the Peace Conference in Paris‎^[1], San Francisco: Chinese National Welfare Society in America, →OCLC, page 153:

     Since 1900 the Japanese Government have stationed some troops at their Consulates in such places as Liutowkow in the Province of Fengtien and Yenki in the Province of Kirin, and beginning with 1911 the Russians, following the Japanese precedent, also put military guards at their Consulates at such places as Kirin and Yenki.

   • 1933, Register of the Department of State‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 64:

     Mukden, Liaoning, Manchuria [consular district]
     All of the Province of Liaoning (Fengtien) except the leased territory of Kwantung; and all that part of the Province of Kirin lying to the south of the parallel of 44° north latitude, including the following places in Kirin which are open to trade: Changchun (Kwanchengtze), Hunchun, Kirin, Lungchingtsun, Towtaokow, Wangching (Paitsaokow), and Yenki (Chützuchieh).

   • 1961, “Cradle of Revolution: Flames That Flared up in Holung”, in Korea Today‎^[3], number 11 (66), Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43, column 1:

     The county of Holung, China, bordering on Korea across the Tumen River, adjoining Antu county on the west and Yenki county on the north, consists mainly of mountains and hills.