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Tatan

Tatan is the alternative form of Dadan.

Meaning of Dadan

Proper noun

Dadan

  1. An island of Lieyu, Kinmen County, Taiwan.
    • Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor...2005, Xiangming Chen, “The Greater Southeast China Subregion”, in As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 91–92

Origin of Tatan

Borrowed from Mandarin 大膽 (Dàdǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-tan³.

Questions about Tatan

What is Tatan the alternative form of?
Tatan is the alternative form of Dadan.

Words near Tatan in the dictionary

  1. Tatalon
  2. Tatamagouche
  3. tatami
  4. tatamied
  5. tatamis
  6. Tatan
  7. Tatanagar
  8. tatane
  9. Tataouine
  10. Tatar
  11. Tatar Yoke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tatan (page history and authors); Dadan (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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