Taiwan

See also: Taiwán, Taïwan, Táiwān, and Tâi-oân

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English

The Taiwanese flag

Etymology

From earlier Tayuan, Tayoan, or other variants, from Siraya tau (“people”) + an (“place”). Recorded in Dutch as Tayouan (and other variants), and in Min Nan as 大員 (Tāi-oân) (and other variants). The term initially referred to a sandy peninsula in the area of modern-day Anping District, Tainan, and eventually became the name of the entire island. See also 臺灣／台湾 (Táiwān).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌtaɪˈwɑn/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtaɪˈwɑːn/, /ˌtaɪˈwæn/, /ˌtaɪˈwɒn/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Taiwan

1. Common name for a country in East Asia. Official name: Republic of China. Its de facto capital is Taipei.

   Synonyms: Chinese Taipei, Republic of China, ROC

2. An island off the coast of China, also known as Formosa since the 16th century.

   Synonym: Formosa

3. A claimed province of the People's Republic of China

Usage notes

Taiwan and Taiwanese are both widely used as attributives, e.g. Taiwan/Taiwanese culture, the Taiwan/Taiwanese government, Taiwan/Taiwanese food, etc.

Derived terms

• Taiwanese

Translations

East Asian country

• Abkhaz: Тайвань (Ṭājvān’)
• Afrikaans: Taiwan
• Albanian: Tajvan m
• Amharic: ታይዋን (taywan), ታይቫኝ (tayvañ)
• Arabic: تَايْوَان‎ m (tāywān), تَيْوَان‎ f (taywān)
• Armenian: Թայվան (Tʿayvan)
• Assamese: টাইৱান (taiwan)
• Azerbaijani: Tayvan
• Basque: Taiwan
• Belarusian: Тайва́нь m (Tajvánʹ)
• Bengali: তাইওয়ান (taioyan)
• Breton: Taiwan
• Bulgarian: Тайва́н m (Tajván)
• Burmese: ထိုင်ဝမ် (htuing-wam)
• Catalan: Taiwan (ca)
• Cebuano: Taiwan
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 台灣 or 臺灣, 台湾 (toi⁴ waan¹)

  Hakka: 台灣 or 臺灣, 台湾 (Thòi-vàn)

  Mandarin: 台灣 (zh) or 臺灣 (zh), 台湾 (zh) (Táiwān)

  Min Dong: 台灣 or 臺灣, 台湾 (Dài-uăng)

  Min Nan: 台灣 (zh-min-nan) or 臺灣 (zh-min-nan), 台湾 (Tâi-oân)

  Wu: 臺灣 or 台灣, 台湾 (de ue)

• Chuvash: Тайвань (Tajvanʹ)
• Czech: Tchaj-wan (cs) m, Taiwan (cs) m
• Danish: Taiwan
• Dhivehi: ތައިވާން‎ (taivān)
• Dutch: Taiwan (nl) n
• Esperanto: Tajvano
• Estonian: Taiwan (et)
• Faroese: Taivan n
• Finnish: Taiwan (fi)
• French: Taïwan (fr) f
• Galician: Taiwán (gl)
• Georgian: ტაივანი (ṭaivani)
• German: Taiwan (de) n
• Greek: Ταϊβάν (el) f (Taïván)
• Gujarati: તાઇવાન (tāivān), તાઈવાન (tāīvān)
• Hausa: Taiwan
• Hebrew: טייוואן / טַיְוָן‎ m (tayvan)
• Hindi: तैवान (hi) (taivān)
• Hungarian: Tajvan (hu), Kínai Köztársaság
• Icelandic: Tævan (is)
• Ido: Taiwan (io)
• Indonesian: Taiwan
• Interlingua: Taiwan (ia)
• Irish: An Téaváin f
• Italian: Taiwan (it) m
• Japanese: 台湾 (ja) (たいわん, Taiwan), 高砂 (ja) (takasago)
• Kalenjin: Taiwan
• Kamba: Taiwan
• Kannada: ತೈವಾನ್ (kn) (taivān)
• Kashmiri: तैवान (taiwān)
• Kazakh: Тайуан (Taywan)
• Khmer: តៃវ៉ាន់ (tayvan)
• Kikuyu: Taiwan
• Korean: 타이완 (Taiwan), 대만 (Daeman) (臺灣 (ko))
• Kurdish: Taywan (ku)
• Kyrgyz: Тайвань (Tayvanʹ)
• Lao: ໄຕ້ຫວັນ (tai wan)
• Latin: Taivania f
• Latvian: Taivāna f

• Lithuanian: Taivanas (lt) m
• Luo: Taiwan
• Luxembourgish: Taiwan
• Lü: ᦺᦒᦛᦱᧃ (thayv̇aan)
• Macedonian: Та́јван m (Tájvan)
• Malay: Taiwan
• Malayalam: തായ്‌വാൻ (tāy‌vān)
• Maltese: it-Tajwan
• Maori: Taiwana
• Marathi: तायवान (tāyavān), तैवान (taivān)
• Meru: Taiwan
• Mongolian: Тайвань (Tajvanʹ)
• Manchu: ᡨᠠᡳᠸᠠᠨ (taiwan)
• Navajo: Táiwáán
• Nepali: ताइवान (tāiwān)
• Norman: Taïouan m, Taiwan m
• Northern Sami: Taiwan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Taiwan (no)

  Nynorsk: Taiwan (nn)

• Occitan: Taiwan
• Paiwan: Taivang
• Pashto: تايوان‎ (tāywān)
• Persian: تایوان‎ (tâivân)
• Piedmontese: Taiwan
• Polish: Tajwan (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Taiwan (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਤਾਇਵਾਨ (tāevān)
• Romanian: Taivan, Taiwan n
• Russian: Тайва́нь (ru) m (Tajvánʹ)
• Samoan: Tailani
• Sanskrit: तैवान (taivāna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тајван m

  Roman: Tajvan (sh) m

• Sicilian: Taiwan
• Sinhalese: තායිවානය (tāyivānaya)
• Slovak: Taiwan m
• Slovene: Tájvan (sl) m
• Spanish: Taiwán (es)
• Swahili: Taiwani (sw)
• Swedish: Taiwan (sv)
• Tagalog: Taywan
• Tajik: Тайван (tg) (Tayvan)
• Tamil: தைவான் (taivāṉ)
• Tatar: Тайвань (Taywan’)
• Telugu: తైవాన్ (te) (taivān)
• Thai: ไต้หวัน (th) (dtâi-wǎn)
• Tibetan: ཐའེ་ཝན (tha'e wan)
• Tok Pisin: Taiwan
• Turkish: Tayvan (tr)
• Turkmen: Taýwan
• Udmurt: Тайвань (Tajvanʹ)
• Ukrainian: Тайва́нь m (Tajvánʹ)
• Urdu: تائیوان‎ (taivān)
• Uyghur: تەيۋەن‎ (teywen)
• Uzbek: Tayvan (uz)
• Vietnamese: Đài Loan (vi) (臺灣)
• Volapük: Tayvän
• West Frisian: Taiwan (fy)
• Yiddish: טײַוואַן‎ (tayvan)
• Yoruba: Taiwani
• Zhuang: Daizvanh

East Asian island

• Catalan: Taiwan (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 台灣 or 臺灣, 台湾 (toi⁴ waan¹)

  Hakka: 台灣 or 臺灣, 台湾 (Thòi-vàn)

  Mandarin: 台灣 (zh) or 臺灣 (zh), 台湾 (zh) (Táiwān)

  Min Dong: 台灣 or 臺灣, 台湾 (Dài-uăng)

  Min Nan: 台灣 (zh-min-nan) or 臺灣 (zh-min-nan), 台湾 (Tâi-oân)

  Wu: 臺灣 or 台灣, 台湾 (de ue)

• Czech: Tchaj-wan (cs)
• Dzongkha: ཏའི་ཝཱན་ (ta'i wān)
• Hungarian: Tajvan (hu)
• Japanese: 高砂 (ja) (takasago)
• Khmer: តៃវ៉ាន់ (tai van)
• Latvian: Taivāna f

• Lithuanian: Taivanas (lt)
• Manchu: ᡨᠠᡳᠸᠠᠨ (taiwan)
• Macedonian: Та́јван m (Tájvan), Формо́за f (Formóza)
• Maori: Taiwana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Taiwan (no)

  Nynorsk: Taiwan (nn)

• Paiwan: Taivang
• Portuguese: Formosa (pt) f
• Romanian: Formosa f
• Russian: Тайва́нь (ru) m (Tajvánʹ), Формо́за (ru) f (Formóza)
• Sinhalese: තායිවානය (tāyivānaya)
• Tagalog: Taiwan, Pormosa
• Thai: ไต้หวัน (th) (dtâi-wǎn)
• Turkish: Formoza, Tayvan (tr)

See also

• Countries of the world

Further reading

• Taiwan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Taiwan on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Taiwan on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

Anagrams

• atwain

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Catalan

Proper noun

Taiwan m

1. Taiwan

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Czech

Alternative forms

• Tchaj-wan

Proper noun

Taiwan m

1. Taiwan

Related terms

• taiwanský
• Taiwanec

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Taiwan n

1. Taiwan

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Finnish

Proper noun

Taiwan

1. Taiwan

Declension

Inflection of Taiwan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Taiwan	—
genitive		Taiwanin	—
partitive		Taiwania	—
illative		Taiwaniin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Taiwan	—
accusative	nom.	Taiwan	—
	gen.	Taiwanin
genitive		Taiwanin	—
partitive		Taiwania	—
inessive		Taiwanissa	—
elative		Taiwanista	—
illative		Taiwaniin	—
adessive		Taiwanilla	—
ablative		Taiwanilta	—
allative		Taiwanille	—
essive		Taiwanina	—
translative		Taiwaniksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Taiwanitta	—
comitative		—	—

Derived terms

• taiwanilainen

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German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

Taiwan n (genitive Taiwans)

1. an island nation in Asia; Taiwan

Synonyms

• island: Formosa
• state: Republik China

Derived terms

• Taiwaner, Taiwanese, taiwanesisch, taiwanisch

Further reading

• Taiwan in Duden online

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Italian

Proper noun

Taiwan m

1. Taiwan

Derived terms

• taiwanese

See also

• Formosa

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Marshallese

Etymology

From English Taiwan, from Mandarin 臺灣 (Táiwān).

Pronunciation

• MED phonemes: {tahyiywan}
• IPA^(key): /tˠaɰjɨjwanʲ/, [tˠɑɑ̯i̯ii̯ɒ̯ɒ͡ænʲ]

Proper noun

Taiwan

1. Taiwan.

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Taiwan

1. Taiwan

Synonyms

• Republikken Kina

Related terms

• taiwaner
• taiwansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Taiwan

1. Taiwan

Synonyms

• Republikken Kina

Related terms

• taiwanar
• taiwansk

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Taiuã

Etymology

From English Taiwan, from Mandarin 臺灣 (Táiwān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taj.ˈwɐ̃/
• Hyphenation: Tai‧wan

Proper noun

Taiwan f

1. Taiwan; Republic of China (a country in East Asia)
2. Taiwan; Formosa (the main island of the Republic of China)

Synonyms

• (Republic of China): Formosa, República da China
• (Taiwan island): Formosa

Related terms

• taiwanês