Meanings
Yanjin1
- A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
The revolutionary committee of Yenchin county, Honan province, mobilized the masses to first, examine what living ideas the cadres transferred to lower levels have; secondly[…]
[1978, Warren Kuo, editor, A Comprehensive Glossary of Chinese Communist Terminology, →OCLC, page 220, column 12 more examples
Three counties in Honan along the old course of the Yellow River in an area with poor soil covering either sandy and saline-alkali land or fields liable to drought or waterlogging, waged stubborn struggles against the natural disasters of flood, salinity and alkalinity, drought, and sandstorms. In 1968 the Yenchin County Revolutionary Committee led the people in digging irrigation canals, draining waterlogged areas, leaching alkaline and saline soil, and planting trees.
新中国的二十五年
[1975, “Three Former Grain-Deficient Provinces Show Surpluses”, in New China's First Quarter-Century [新中国的二十五年], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, sourced from Hsinhua News Agency and Chinese newspapers, →OCLC, page 188Most counties in Henan have dozens of meetings, whether officially registered or not. A Christian in Yanjin County wrote that there were more than 100 ‘large and small meeting-points’ with ‘2,000 registered Christians and many unregistered’.
1991, Tony Lambert, “'Christianity Fever': The Growth of the Church”, in The Resurrection of the Chinese Church, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 152
Yanjin2
Origin
Yanjin · proper noun
- Mandarin延津
- EnglishYanjin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延津 (Yánjīn).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Yanjin · proper noun
- Mandarin鹽津 /盐津
- EnglishYanjin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鹽津 /盐津 (Yánjīn).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 延津, 鹽津 /盐津
- 延津 (Yánjīn)county
- 鹽津 /盐津 (Yánjīn)county
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