See Tai in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"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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"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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"ref": "2021 February 25, Ana Swanson, “Biden’s Pick for Trade Representative Promises Break With Past Policy”, in The New York Times, sourced from Washington, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-02-28, Economy:",
"text": "Katherine Tai, President Biden’s pick for United States trade representative, promised lawmakers during her confirmation hearing on Thursday that she would work with Congress to help reinvigorate the economy and aggressively enforce American trade rules against China, Mexico and other trading partners.\nMs. Tai, in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, said her background challenging China’s unfair trade practices in the Obama administration had given her knowledge of “the opportunities and limitations in our existing toolbox.”",
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