Antu
See also: antu
English
Etymology 1
From Mandarin 安圖／安图 (Āntú).
Proper noun
Antu
- A county of Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
- 1980 [March 29, 1937], Kim Il-sung, “Let Us Inspire the People with Hopes of National Liberation by Advancing with Large Forces into the Motherland”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, OCLC 8532530, page 126:
- In this large-scale operation of advance into the homeland we plan to dispatch the KPRA in three directions: The main unit will cross the Amnok River and push towards Hyesan, a strongpoint of frontier guards of the Japanese imperialists; another unit is to skirt Mt. Paektu and push on, by way of Antu and Helong, to the northern border area adjoining the Tuman River; and the third unit is to advance as far as the Linjiang and Changbai areas on the shore of the Amnok River.
- 2018 September 20, Joonho Kim; Joshua Lipes, “North Korea Shuts Down Illegal Cell Phone Access to Chinese Networks Amid Kim-Moon Summit”, in Leejin Jun, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 20 September 2018:
- The source said that a friend from Jilin’s Antu county had told him that only border crossing between the two nations by land, across North Korea’s sacred Mt. Paekdu—known in China as Mt. Changbai—had been closed from Sept. 17-21.
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Translations
county
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Etymology 2
Mexican surname of unexplained origin.
Proper noun
Antu (plural Antus)
- A surname.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Antu is the 41038th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 531 individuals. Antu is most common among Hispanic/Latino (90.58%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Antu”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 46.