T'ai-nan
See also: Tainan, Táinán, and tai nạn
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 臺南／台南 (Táinán) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-nan².
Proper noun
T'ai-nan
- Alternative spelling of Tainan
- 1986 October 20, “Taiwan: The Winds of Change”, in Newsweek, volume CVIII, number 16, page 40:
- A country that can no longer rely on cheap labor: Space-age lab in Hsin-chu, producing salt near T'ai-nan
- 1998, “Introduction”, in No trace of the gardener : poems of Yang Mu, Yale University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 97-15641, OCLC 36877368, OL 669772M, page xiv:
- Among his poems is “Zeelandia,” written in early 1975. The title refers to An-p’ing, a fortress in T’ai-nan, in southern Taiwan, where the Dutch landed more than three centuries ago.
- 2001, Robert Green, Taiwan, Lucent Books, →ISBN, LCCN 00-010390, OCLC 44675910, OL 9813316M, page 88:
- As a candidate in 1985 in his native T'ai-nan county, his wife was struck by a speeding motorist and was paralyzed from the waist down.
- 2010, Uncle John's Creature Feature Bathroom Reader For Kids Only (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader), Ashland, Oregon: Bathroom Readers' Press, →ISBN, OCLC 965562308, page 356:
- Frightened bus drivers in Taiwan have refused to drive to a remote village outside of T'ai-nan because of one ghostly girl. Drivers report stopping at a shadowy area near a sugarcane plantation. A young girl gets on the bus but never gets off. She simply vanishes before the bus gets to town.
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Translations
Tainan — see Tainan
Further reading
- “T'ai-nan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “T'ai-nan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “T'ai-nan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
Anagrams
- Antian, naiant, tannia