yantai
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A coastal prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong, China.
Example Sentences
- "In September, the largest factory in Yantai, a coastal city in northeastern China, called on the local government with a problem — a shortage of 19,000 workers as the deadline on a big order approached."
- "It’s the time of early spring in Yantai, the central city on the Shandong Peninsula. The trees are quietly stretching new branches and sprouting fresh green buds, spreading out the turquoise of cyan on the piece of the land."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Chinese 煙臺 /烟台 (Yāntái, “smoke tower”), from a Ming-era signal tower on Mount Qi.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 煙臺
Inflected Forms
Yen-tai (alternative)
Yen-t’ai (alternative)