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Ta-lien

Ta-lien is the alternative form of Dalian.

Meaning of Dalian

Proper noun

Dalian

  1. A major subprovincial city of Liaoning, in northeastern China.
    • In a rare interview, Ms. Sun spoke with pride about her blue collar past. “I come from a worker’s background, and I have a very deep and special feeling for organized labor,” she told the Dalian Daily.
    • As party secretary of Dalian, a city in northeastern China, Ms. Sun honed her political acumen.2022 October 19, Alexandra Stevenson, “For Women in China’s Communist Party, It’s Lonely at the Top”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2022

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Origin of Ta-lien

From Mandarin 大連 /大连 (Dàlián) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-lien².

Questions about Ta-lien

What is Ta-lien the alternative form of?
Ta-lien is the alternative form of Dalian.

Words near Ta-lien in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ta-lien (page history and authors); Dalian (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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