Taiwan

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

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

   • 2019, “President Tsai meets US Senator Ted Cruz”, in Office of the President Republic of China (Taiwan)‎^[2]:

     The senator then remarked that all eyes in the world are focused on Hong Kong, and on the brutal repression that is being visited upon the people of Hong Kong. The stakes being fought for are democracy and freedom, he said, and that is what Taiwan rightfully symbolizes to the world. He firmly reiterated that the American people are proud to be friends of Taiwan, and proud to stand with Taiwan.

   • 2020, Kuang-shun Yang, “Would Bernie Sanders Defend Taiwan?”, in The Diplomat‎^[3]:

     One moment that caught many people’s attention came when the host, Anderson Cooper, asked for Sanders’ view, as a potential commander-in-chief, should China take military action against Taiwan. Sanders responded straightforwardly: “I mean, I think we have got to make it clear to countries around the world that we will not sit by and allow invasions to take place, absolutely.”

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

   Synonym: Formosa

3. A province of the Republic of China
4. 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
• Dzongkha: ཏའི་ཝཱན (ta'i wān)
• 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: ताइवान (hi) m (tāivān), तैवान (hi) (taivān), टाइवान m (ṭāivān), चीनी गणराज्य (hi) m (cīnī gaṇrājya)
• 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 (tāiwāna)
• Norman: Taïouan m, Taiwan m
• Northern Sami: Taiwan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Taiwan (no)

  Nynorsk: Taiwan (nn)

• Occitan: Taiwan
• Oriya: ତାଇୱାନ (taiwanô)
• Paiwan: Taivang
• Pashto: تايوان‎ (tāywān)
• Persian: تایوان‎ (tâyvân)
• 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)
• Santali: ᱛᱟᱭᱣᱟᱱ (tayvan)
• 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 (tāīvān)
• Uyghur: تەيۋەن‎ (teywen)
• Uzbek: Tayvan (uz)
• Vietnamese: Đài Loan (vi) (臺灣)
• Volapük: Tayvän
• West Frisian: Taiwan (fy)
• Western Panjabi: تائیوان‎
• 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)
• Hindi: ताइवान (hi) m (tāivān), तैवान (hi) m (taivān), टाइवान m (ṭāivān)
• 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

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		—	—

Possessive forms of Taiwan (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Taiwanini	Taiwanimme
2nd person	Taiwanisi	Taiwaninne
3rd person	Taiwaninsa

Derived terms

• taiwanilainen

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• 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

Alternative forms

• Taewan

Derived terms

• ri-Taiwan

Etymology

Borrowed from English Taiwan, from earlier Tayuan, Tayoan, or other variants, from Siraya tau (“people”) + an (“place”).

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [tˠɑːiwɑnʲ], (enunciated) [tˠɑ iwɑnʲ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /tˠæɰjiwænʲ/
• Bender phonemes: {tahyiwan}

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