"Tainan" meaning in English

See Tainan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

enPR: tīʹnänʹ Etymology: From Mandarin 臺南/台南 (Táinán), meaning "South Taiwan". Officially named ca. 1885 with the creation of Tainan Prefecture. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|cmn|-}} Mandarin, {{zh-l|臺南}} 臺南/台南 (Táinán) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tainan
  1. A major city in southern Taiwan, dating to the 16th century Categories (place): Cities in Taiwan, Places in Taiwan, Tainan Translations (a city in Taiwan): تَايْنَان (taynān) [masculine] (Arabic), 臺南 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 台南 (Tâi-lâm) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 臺南 (Chinese Cantonese), 台南 (toi⁴ naam⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 臺南 (Chinese Mandarin), 台南 (Táinán) (Chinese Mandarin), Tchaj-nan (Czech), Tainan (Danish), Tainan (Dutch), Tainan (French), Tainan (German), 臺南 (Hakka Chinese), 台南 (Thòi-nàm) (Hakka Chinese), Tajnan (Hungarian), Tainan (Italian), 台南 (alt: たいなん) [Tainan] (Japanese), 타이난 (alt: 臺南) [Tainan] (Korean), ठाइनान (ṭhāinān) (Marathi), Tainan (Norwegian Bokmål), Tainan (Polish), Tainan [feminine] (Portuguese), Тайна́нь (Tajnánʹ) [masculine] (Russian), Tainan (Spanish), Tainan (Swedish), ไถหนาน (Tǎi-nǎan) (Thai), Tainan (Turkish), Teynen (Uyghur), Đài Nam (alt: 臺南) (Vietnamese)
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  2. (historical) A former county of Taiwan Tags: historical Categories (place): Historical political subdivisions, Places in Taiwan
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Fort Orange [historic], Fort Zeelandia [historic], Fort Provintia [historic], Tainan City [legal, law], Taiwan, T'ai-wan [historical], Phoenix City [informal], T'ai-nan (alt: Wade–Giles) Related terms: Taipei

Alternative forms

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      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 臺南/台南 (Táinán), meaning \"South Taiwan\". Officially named ca. 1885 with the creation of Tainan Prefecture.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Tainan",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Taipei"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Cities in Taiwan",
        "en:Places in Taiwan",
        "en:Tainan"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895 March, P. L. Simmonds, “Notes on Some Saps and Secretions Used in Pharmacy”, in American Journal of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, page 128:",
          "text": "Camphora officinarum, Nees. The aggregate exports of camphor from China have increased considerably of late years. They were 22,231 cwt. in 1892, and 40,763 cwt. in 1893. The island of Formosa yields the principal quantities, the yearly output being now as much as 41,650 cwt., shipped from the ports of Tamsui and Tainan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914 October, “Unreached Aborigines of Formosa”, in Missionary Review of the World, volume XXXVII, number 10, page 790:",
          "text": "The Council of the Mission, at its headquarters in Tainan appeals to the Church at home to make the jubilee year worthy of the name by an endeavor to reach with the Gospel the yet unevangelized tribes of uncivilized aborigines on the eastern side of the island.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975 April 20, “President Chiang still lives in hearts of people”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 15, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:",
          "text": "\"Without him, what kind of life would we have today,\" sobbed an old man from Tainan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 February 7, “After earthquake, Taiwan fighting against time to rescue trapped survivors”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2016-05-17:",
          "text": "Taiwan was fighting against time on Sunday to rescue some 120 people believed to be trapped in a building, which collapsed on Saturday when a 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern city of Tainan.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A major city in southern Taiwan, dating to the 16th century"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Taiwan",
          "Taiwan#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Historical political subdivisions",
        "en:Places in Taiwan"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, Burton Pasternak, Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:",
          "text": "Chungshe is one of eleven villages in Liuchia township, Tainan county (see Maps 2 and 3). It lies about 30 kilometers northeast of Tainan city.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Chen Shui-Bian, “Living and Growing”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan, Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 55:",
          "text": "At graduation from Lungtien Primary School in Tainan County, I received the County Magistrate's Award, given to the top-ranked student in the class. From there, I tested into Tainan County's junior high school, and during my junior year there represented Tainan County in the first national Chinese language essay competition, placing second.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A former county of Taiwan"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Taiwan",
          "Taiwan#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A former county of Taiwan"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "tīʹnänʹ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "historic"
      ],
      "word": "Fort Orange"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "historic"
      ],
      "word": "Fort Zeelandia"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "historic"
      ],
      "word": "Fort Provintia"
    },
    {
      "topics": [
        "legal",
        "law"
      ],
      "word": "Tainan City"
    },
    {
      "word": "Taiwan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "word": "T'ai-wan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "Phoenix City"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Wade–Giles",
      "word": "T'ai-nan"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "taynān",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "تَايْنَان"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "臺南"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "toi⁴ naam⁴",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "台南"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "臺南"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "Thòi-nàm",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "台南"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "臺南"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "Tâi-lâm",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "台南"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "臺南"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Táinán",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "台南"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tchaj-nan"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tajnan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "alt": "たいなん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "tags": [
        "Tainan"
      ],
      "word": "台南"
    },
    {
      "alt": "臺南",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "tags": [
        "Tainan"
      ],
      "word": "타이난"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "ṭhāinān",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "ठाइनान"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Tajnánʹ",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Тайна́нь"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "Tǎi-nǎan",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "ไถหนาน"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Tainan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Teynen"
    },
    {
      "alt": "臺南",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a city in Taiwan",
      "word": "Đài Nam"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Tainan",
    "Tainan Prefecture"
  ],
  "word": "Tainan"
}

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