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Dadan

/dɑˈdɑn/
/dæˈdæn/

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From Mandarin 大膽 (Dàdǎn).

proper noun Tatan · Taitan

An island of Lieyu, Kinmen County, Taiwan. Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor, 1993

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中文	大膽 /大胆 Dàdǎn

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@misc{dadan_2026,
  title = {Dadan},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dadan},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}