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T'ai-yuan

T'ai-yuan is the alternative form of Taiyuan.

Meaning of Taiyuan

Proper noun

Taiyuan

  1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Shanxi, in northern China.
    • "On Wednesday 7th August 1901 a party from T'ai Yüan Fu, consisting of Mr. Duncan, Dr. Creasy Smith, Major Pereira, and Dr. Edwards, arrived to take part in the memorial service ; Mr. Hoste and Mr. Ernest Taylor of the China Inland Mission having arrived a day or two earlier.[1903 [1901 August 9], “Appendix”, in Fire and Sword in Shansi: The Story of the Martyrdom of Foreigners and Chinese Christians, Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, →OCLC, page 318
    Synonyms:
    Yangku

Origin of T'ai-yuan

From Mandarin 太原 (Tàiyuán), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai⁴-yüan².

Questions about T'ai-yuan

What is T'ai-yuan the alternative form of?
T'ai-yuan is the alternative form of Taiyuan.

Words near T'ai-yuan in the dictionary

  1. T'ai-shan
  2. T'ai-tung
  3. T'ai-wan
  4. T'ai-yeh Lake
  5. T'ai-yeh Pond
  6. T'ai-yuan
  7. T'ai-yüan
  8. T'aitung
  9. T'aiyeh Lake
  10. T'aiyeh Pond
  11. T'ang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: T'ai-yuan (page history and authors); Taiyuan (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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