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Tan-kea

Tan-kea is the alternative form of Tanka.

Meaning of Tanka

Noun

Tanka (plural Tankas or Tanka)

  1. A member of a group of people in southern China who traditionally live on junks.

See all 4 meanings of tanka

Forms of Tan-kea

pluralTan-keas
alternative formtankia

Origin of Tan-kea

A romanization of the Nanjing Mandarin pronunciation of 蜑家 (dànjiā) from before the palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Questions about Tan-kea

What is Tan-kea the alternative form of?
Tan-kea is the alternative form of Tanka.

Words near Tan-kea in the dictionary

  1. Tan-ag Ibaba
  2. Tan-ag Ilaya
  3. Tan-chiang-k'ou
  4. Tan-chou
  5. Tan-feng
  6. Tan-kea
  7. Tan-shui
  8. Tan-tung
  9. Tan-y-Bwlch
  10. tana
  11. Tanabag

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Tan-kea (page history and authors); Tanka (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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