Tai'an

Proper noun

Tai'an

1. A prefecture-level city of Shandong, China.
   • Chinese police have uncovered the country’s largest alleged on-line pyramid selling scheme, involving 170,000 people and 1.36 billion yuan ($180 million), state media said on Friday.
     Authorities in Tai’an city, in the eastern Shandong province, uncovered the scheme named “Swiss Mutual Fund” in May...2007 August 31, “Police uncover China's largest online pyramid scam”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2020, Internet News
   • Our medical college lay nestled beneath the famed Taishan (pronounced Tie-shawn), or Mount Tai, the foremost of China’s five sacred mountains and the pride of the city of Tai’an, even all of Shandong province. We lived on the university’s old campus at the foot of Mount Tai, just at the edge of...2012, Aminta Arrington, “Gate”, in Home is a Roof over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China, New York: The Overlook Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 17–18

   Synonyms:

   Tai-ngan, Taianfu

2. A village in Beiwan, Jingyuan, Baiyin, Gansu, China.