Etymology

Yenki

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Mandarin 延吉
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  1. Mandarin · borrowed from延吉
  2. English todayYenki

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 延吉 (Yánjí), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.