Meanings
alternative Yenching
- A district of Beijing, China.
Alpine skiing at the 2022 Olympics will take place in the Yanqing District, where it should be plenty cold but where it snows little and every flake ski racers careen across will be man-made.
2021 December 5, Matthew Futterman, “On its 4-Year Cue, Skiing Re-enters the Spotlight Ahead of Olympics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2021, Olympics1 more example
Officials from the Yanqing district of Beijing, which houses the section of the wall that was on offer, also said in a statement they had not been notified of the event and had not approved it.
2018 August 8, “Airbnb axes Great Wall of China stay competition after conservation concerns”, in DW News, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2018, News
Origin
- Mandarin延慶 /延庆
- EnglishYanqing
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延慶 /延庆 (Yánqìng).
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Chinese Cantonese 延慶 /延庆
- 延慶 /延庆 (jin⁴ hing³)district
Chinese Mandarin 延慶 /延庆
- 延慶 /延庆 (Yánqìng)district
Japanese 延慶
- 延慶 (Enkei)district
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Yanqing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yanqing
“Yanqing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yanqing. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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