Yanji

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 延吉 (Yánjí)

• IPA^(key): /jænˈd͡ʒiː/, /jɑnˈd͡ʒiː/

Yanji

1. A county-level city in Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
   • 1980 [December 16, 1931], Kim, Il-sung, “On Organizing and Waging Armed Struggle Against Japanese Imperialism”, in Kim Il Sung Works‎, volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 38:

     In eastern Manchuria alone, there is a growing tendency to refuse to surrender among the army units stationed in Helong and Yanji; thousands of soldiers, in groups or individually, have already risen up in Wangqing, Antu and other districts.

   • [1983, Lee, Chong-Sik, “Sino-Soviet Conflict, 1929”, in Revolutionary Struggle in Manchuria: Chinese Communism and Soviet Interest, 1922-1945‎, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:

     Between February 28 and March 1, 1930, some of the Korean Communists in Yenchi organized hundreds of farmers in different localities and carried out mass demonstrations, in which banners saying "Destroy Japanese Imperialism or Long Live Korean Independence" were displayed and hundreds of thousands of leaflets were distributed.]