Yanta
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雁塔.
Proper noun
Yanta
- A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
- 2004 April 2, Jinliang Shan, “Don't Stand So Close to Him”, in Beijing Today, number 148, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:
- 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.
- 2015, Sha Li, “Jintian wo hui dao Beijing Today I return to Beijing”, in Wounds of Attachment, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27:
- 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.
- 2022 January 3, “China removes two officials in locked-down Xi'an”, in France 24, archived from the original on 3 January 2022:
- 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.
Translations
district
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