Meanings
proper noun
- A district of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
The disappearances began in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, last October.[…]Zhang Yunbao, police captain in the city’s Yanhu District, said he had received 10 similar reports.
2009 January 23, Annie Wei, “50 Shanxi teens kidnapped, beaten in Myanmar”, in Beijing Today, number 399, →ISSN, →OCLC, News, page 3, columns 1, 2
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鹽湖／盐湖 (Yánhú).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 鹽湖 /盐湖
- 鹽湖 /盐湖 (jim⁴ wu⁴)district
Chinese Mandarin 鹽湖 /盐湖
- 鹽湖 /盐湖 (Yánhú)district
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Yanhu
All rhymes →Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
Yanhu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yanhu
MLA
“Yanhu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yanhu. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Yanhu,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yanhu.
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