Word.ws English Dictionary

Lun-t'ai

Lun-t'ai is the alternative form of Luntai.

Meaning of Luntai

Proper noun

Luntai

  1. A county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • In many cases, the Postal Guide gives the Chinese name alone. This applies to most small places, and it is not always easy to identify Chinese post offices with Turki villages ; e.g. are Luntai (east of Kucha) and Shanshan (east of Turfan), as shown in the somewhat diagrammatic Postal Atlas of...1925 March, J. H. Reynolds, “Place-names in Sinkiang”, in The Geographical Journal, volume LXV, number 3, London: Royal Geographical Society, page 242

Origin of Lun-t'ai

From Mandarin 輪臺 /輪台 /轮台 (Lúntái) Wade–Giles romanization: Lun²-tʻai².

Questions about Lun-t'ai

What is Lun-t'ai the alternative form of?
Lun-t'ai is the alternative form of Luntai.

Words near Lun-t'ai in the dictionary

  1. Lumsden
  2. Lumsdens
  3. Lumumbist
  4. Lumumbists
  5. lun
  6. Lun-t'ai
  7. luna
  8. Luna City
  9. luna cornea
  10. Luna County
  11. Luna Este

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Lun-t'ai (page history and authors); Luntai (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Lun-t'ai.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lun-t%27ai. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.