Yan

Proper noun

Meaning

(historical) An ancient march, duchy, and kingdom of northeastern China during the Zhou dynasty.

(historical) The realm of this land under later imperial Chinese dynasties.

A mountain chain in northeastern China.

Yan (plural Yans)

A male given name, equivalent to English John.

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Examples

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. Salman Rushdie

After the Legislative Yuan rejected Chu, Li was obliged to choose Yan Xishan instead. Source: Internet

After Yan communicated these demands and Chiang agreed to comply with them, Li departed for Guangdong. Source: Internet

Bhamla and undergraduate student Gaurav Byagathvalli set out to change that, with help from collaborators Soham Sinha, Yan Zhang, Assistant Professor Mark Styczynski and Lambert High School teacher Janet Standeven. Source: Internet

A year later, in 195, Cao Cao managed to drive Lü Bu out of Yan Province. Source: Internet

China Social Darwinism was formally introduced to China through the translation by Yan Fu of Huxley's Evolution and Ethics, in the course of an extensive series of translations of influential Western thought. Source: Internet

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