Yanta

Yan·ta
Y4A1N1T1A1

proper noun

A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

    On Sunday, Xi'an announced that two senior Communist Party officials from the Yanta district had been removed from their posts, according to local media, in a bid to "strengthen the work of epidemic prevention and control" in the area.

    2022 January 3, “China removes two officials in locked-down Xi'an”, in France 24, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022
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    It was an unusual case for Yanta District People’s Intermediate Court in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province on March 25. The suspect was standing in court wearing a white mask and rubber gloves and the bailiffs were keeping their distance. It was because the defendant, Mu, had AIDS.

    2004 April 2, Jinliang Shan, “Don't Stand So Close to Him”, in Beijing Today, number 148, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1

    It’s cloudy at dusk at the Xi’an Huoche Zhan, 6:40PM Monday evening, when they step out into the night.[…] FONG takes them to his cousin’s Hupan Hostel, a 1980s row house conversion in the Yanta District.[…] The Xi’an gang driver, Jinfeng, follows Henry FONG with DONG ZhiWei and WEI ZengJiu in a black Brilliance.

    2015, Sha Li, “Jintian wo hui dao Beijing Today I return to Beijing”, in Wounds of Attachment, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27

    Officials have been put on notice that they will lose their jobs if they don’t bring the numbers of new cases down. Already, the top two Communist Party officials in Yanta district, where half the city’s cases have been recorded, have been sacked and the deputy mayor placed in charge.

    2022 January 4, Ken Moritsugu, “Conditions hard for 13 million under China virus lockdown”, in AP News, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2022

Origin

  1. Mandarin雁塔
  2. EnglishYanta

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雁塔.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 雁塔
  • 雁塔district
Chinese Mandarin 雁塔
  • 雁塔district

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Cite this entry
APA

Yanta. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yanta

MLA

“Yanta.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yanta. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Yanta,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yanta.

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