See Tai on Wiktionary
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"sense": "Translations",
"word": "ဂုံ"
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"sense": "Translations",
"word": "តៃ"
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"roman": "tái",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "တႆး"
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"roman": "tai",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "ไท"
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"ref": "1979, Meishi Tsai, Contemporary Chinese Novels and Short Stories, 1949-1974: An Annotated Bibliography, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 142:",
"text": "Five short stories concern land reform, elections in the border region, and anti-Japanese activities:[...]\ne) “Feng-pao Tai-hsien-chʻeng” 風暴代縣城 (Storms in Tai County). A twenty-year-old anti-Japanese hero does not surrender even when he is captured and executed.",
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"ref": "1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Chʻien, edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:",
"text": "Kuang-wu 廣武 lay in the southwestern part of today's Tai County 代縣, Shansi; Wu and Lu, 93.3392n.",
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"ref": "2002, Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, →OCLC, page 190:",
"text": "Kou-chu Mountains: today called Yen-men Mountains, a mountain range located to the southeast of Ma-yi, near present-day Tai county, in Shansi (Chung-kuo li-shih ti-t'u chi, 2:17-18, 3-10).",
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"ref": "2017 November 7, Lin Chia-nan, “Kerry logistics accused of work-related injury cover-up”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-06, Taiwan News, page 3:",
"text": "The company on Nov. 3 last year asked an employee surnamed Tai (戴) to deliver 10 barrels of silane — a flammable alkaline substance — from Pingtung County’s Chaojhou Township (潮州) to Sinyuan Township (新園) without telling him what the cargo would be, Tseng said at a news conference on behalf of Tai, adding that the company did not even have a license to deliver the dangerous substance.",
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