"taikonaut" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtaɪkəˌnɔːt/ Forms: taikonauts [plural]
Etymology: From Mandarin 太空 (tàikōng, “space”) + -naut, modelled after astronaut, cosmonaut, spationaut, etc. The term was coined on 19 May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih (趙里昱/赵里昱 (Zhào Lǐyù)) from Malaysia, who used it first in newsgroups. Almost simultaneously, Chen Lan coined it for use in the Western media. Etymology templates: {{der|en|cmn|-}} Mandarin, {{zh-m|太空|t=space|tr=tàikōng}} 太空 (tàikōng, “space”), {{suffix|en||naut}} + -naut, {{m|en|astronaut}} astronaut, {{m|en|cosmonaut}} cosmonaut, {{m|en|spationaut}} spationaut, {{m|zh||趙里昱|tr=Zhào Lǐyù}} 趙里昱/赵里昱 (Zhào Lǐyù) Head templates: {{en-noun}} taikonaut (plural taikonauts)
  1. A person who travels in space for the Chinese space program; a Chinese astronaut. Categories (topical): Astronautics, Occupations, People Translations (Chinese astronaut): تَايْكُونَات (tāykonāt) (Arabic), taikonauta (Basque), taikonauta [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), 太空人 (thài-khong-jîn) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 太空人 (taai³ hung¹ jan⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 太空人 (tàikōng rén) (Chinese Mandarin), 宇航員 (Chinese Mandarin), 宇航员 (yǔháng yuán) (Chinese Mandarin), 航天員 (Chinese Mandarin), 航天员 (hángtiān yuán) (Chinese Mandarin), 宇宙航行員 (Chinese Mandarin), 宇宙航行员 (yǔzhòu hángxíng yuán) (Chinese Mandarin), 太空飛行員 (Chinese Mandarin), 太空飞行员 (tàikōng fēixíngyuán) (Chinese Mandarin), tajkonaŭto (Esperanto), taikonautti (Finnish), taïkonaute [feminine, masculine] (French), Taikonaut [masculine] (German), Taikonautin [feminine] (German), ταϊκοναύτης (taïkonáftis) [masculine] (Greek), tajkonauta (Hungarian), タイコノート (taikonōto) (Japanese), 타이코놋 (taikonot) (Korean), wótááhgóó ałnááʼáłtʼahí (Navajo), tajkonauta [feminine, masculine] (Polish), taikonauta [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), taikonaut [masculine] (Romanian), тайкона́вт (tajkonávt) [masculine] (Russian), taikonauta [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), taikonaut [common-gender] (Swedish), taykonot (Turkish)

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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Chinese astronaut",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "taikonaut"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Chinese astronaut",
      "word": "taykonot"
    }
  ],
  "word": "taikonaut"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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