Yantai

name

Meaning

A coastal prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong, China.
Zhifu, a former village in northeastern Shandong, China, which grew into modern Yantai.
A village in the township of Haidao, Xiapu County in the prefecture-level city of Ningde, Fujian, China.

Etymology / origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Chinese 煙臺 /烟台 (Yāntái, “smoke tower”), from a Ming-era signal tower on Mount Qi.

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