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Ta-li

Ta-li is the dated form of Dali.

Meaning of Dali

Proper noun (1)

Dali

  1. A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
    • Wen Fang, who lives in Dali county in the northwest province of Shaanxi, made a name posting photos and videos of himself dressed in women’s fashion and strutting his stuff through his village.2019 December 26, Alice Yan, “Meet the Chinese villager with supermodel looks”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2019, Society

Proper noun (2)

Dali

  1. A Bai autonomous prefecture in Yunnan province, China.
    • Away over in South-west China, in the Tali prefecture of Yunnan Province, there lies Chungtien County. Set amongst a tumbled mass of mountains rising to the snow line, it is not easily accessible.[1971, Rewi Alley, “In and around Canton in November 1970”, in Eastern Horizon, volume X, number 1, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 2
  2. A city in Yunnan, China.
    Synonyms:
    Dalifornia
  3. A town in Dali city, Yunnan, China.

Proper noun (3)

Dali

  1. A town in Foshan city, Guangdong province, China.

See all 6 meanings of dali

Origin of Ta-li

From Mandarin 大理 (Dàlǐ) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-li³.

Questions about Ta-li

What is Ta-li the dated form of?
Ta-li is the dated form of Dali.

Words near Ta-li in the dictionary

  1. Ta-ch'ing
  2. ta-da
  3. ta-dah
  4. Ta-Ha
  5. Ta-hsing
  6. Ta-li
  7. Ta-lien
  8. ta-ra
  9. Ta-t'ung
  10. ta-ta
  11. ta-ta for now

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ta-li (page history and authors); Dali (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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