Taan

See also: taan, tʼaan, and tään

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 大安 (Dà'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-an¹.

Proper noun

Taan

1. Alternative form of Daan
   • 1975, An Extract Report on the 1975 Sample Census of Population and Housing: Taiwan-Fukien Area, Republic of China‎^[1], →OCLC, page 6:

     Also, a county and municipality pretest was conducted in selected Taan District, in Taipei municipality and Taishan township in Taipei county to test the feasibility and soundness of all designs.

   • 1978 December 3, “Saudi links boost people's interest in Islam”, in Free China Weekly‎^[2], volume XIX, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

     As far as the Taipei Islamic center is concerned, no firm decision has been made so far, according to Hsu.
     But space has been allocated for the center in front of the existing Taipei Grand Mosque in the Taan district on an area of more than 36,000 square feet.

   • 1982 February 1, “TAIPEI, TAIPEI!”, in Taiwan Today‎^[3], archived from the original on 06 October 2022:

     In truth, Yeh Shan's footprints in the Taan district are only thinly scattered. His hometown is, naturally, at the water's margin, in Hualien.

   • 1996, Robert M. Marsh, “Solidarity with Extended Kin”, in The Great Transformation: Social Change in Taipei, Taiwan Since the 1960s‎^[4], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 149–150:

     We know the “ethnic” distribution between Taiwanese and mainland Chinese households in each district (ch’ü) of Taipei. In 1963, the percent of Taiwanese households varied from only 28.8% in Taan district to 86% in Chiencheng district. In 1991, Taan again had the lowest percent of Taiwanese households (63%) and Tatung the highest (86%).

   • 2002, Hu, Taipei Review‎^[5], volume 52, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

     My family lived in Taipei's Taan District where many mainlanders were clustered amid the Taiwanese[...]

   • [2003, Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides)‎^[6], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 139:

     Not far southeast of the memorial is the residential Ta-an district, a minor attraction but in many ways a more interesting insight into Taipei than the tourist sights.]

   • 2009 January 1, 資訊管理室 [Information Management Office], “TAIPEI CITY TO HAVE 8 CONSTITUENCIES FOR LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS”, in Yangmingshan National Park‎^[7], archived from the original on 20 September 2022:

     The sixth constituency will cover the Taan administrative district, and the seventh constituency will contain the Hsinyi district and 13 boroughs in the Sungshan district, while the eighth constituency will incorporate the Wenshan district and 10 boroughs in the Chungcheng district.

   • 2015 July 27, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “40 of the best Taiwanese foods and drinks”, in CNN‎^[8], archived from the original on 08 July 2017:

     A Shanghainese staple, the Taiwanese version differs in two ways: it's slightly bigger and it hits the pan upside-down.
     Hsu Ji, Shida Night Market, Taan District, Taipei City; […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taan.

Translations

Daan — see Daan

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Taan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1859, column 1