Yanjin

See also: yánjǐn, yánjìn, and yǎnjìn

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延津 (Yánjīn).

Proper noun

Yanjin

1. A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
   • [1978, Warren Kuo, editor, A Comprehensive Glossary of Chinese Communist Terminology‎^[1], →OCLC, page 220, column 1:

     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 […]]

   • 1991, Tony Lambert, “'Christianity Fever': The Growth of the Church”, in The Resurrection of the Chinese Church‎^[2], Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 152:

     Most 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’.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 延津 (zh) (Yánjīn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yanjin”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3515, column 1