English
Yantai
Yantai comes from Chinese 煙臺 ‘smoke tower’.
- Chinesemodern煙臺Yāntái‘smoke tower’
- Englishearliest quotation 2013Yantai
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Chinesemodern煙臺Yāntái‘smoke tower’
- Englishearliest quotation 2013Yantai
Earliest quotation: 2013, Students by Millions Fill Labor Gap in China: “In September, the largest factory in Yantai, a coastal…”
Every English word from Chinese 煙臺
Today it means
name A coastal prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong, China.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Chinese 煙臺 / Yantai