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T'ai-nan

T'ai-nan is the alternative spelling of Tainan.

Meaning of Tainan

Proper noun

Tainan

  1. A major city in southern Taiwan, dating to the 16th century
    • Camphora officinarum, Nees. The aggregate exports of camphor from China have increased considerably of late years. They were 22,231 cwt. in 1892, and 40,763 cwt. in 1893. The island of Formosa yields the principal quantities, the yearly output being now as much as 41,650 cwt., shipped from the...1895 March, P. L. Simmonds, “Notes on Some Saps and Secretions Used in Pharmacy”, in American Journal of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, page 128
  2. (historical) A former county of Taiwan.
    • Chungshe is one of eleven villages in Liuchia township, Tainan county (see Maps 2 and 3). It lies about 30 kilometers northeast of Tainan city.1972, Burton Pasternak, Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10

Origin of T'ai-nan

From Mandarin 臺南 /台南 (Táinán) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-nan².

Questions about T'ai-nan

What is T'ai-nan the alternative spelling of?
T'ai-nan is the alternative spelling of Tainan.

Words near T'ai-nan in the dictionary

  1. T'ai-chou
  2. T'ai-chung
  3. T'ai-erh-chuang
  4. T'ai-lu
  5. T'ai-lu-ko
  6. T'ai-nan
  7. T'ai-p'ing
  8. T'ai-shan
  9. T'ai-tung
  10. T'ai-wan
  11. T'ai-yeh Lake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: T'ai-nan (page history and authors); Tainan (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.

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