T'ai-wan
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T'ai-wan
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From Mandarin 臺灣 /台灣 (Táiwān) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-wan¹.
proper noun
- Alternative form of Taiwan (island) The Chinese now call Formosa 臺灣 Tʻai-wan which is properly the name of the capital of the island, situated on the western coast. But Tʻai-wan is mentioned also in the Ming-shi as a place of Ki-lung-shan, where about A.D. 1620 the red-haired barbarians (the Dutch) settled.
- Alternative form of Taiwan (administrative division) This left Taels 379,000 and odd as the total to be collected under the three heads abov named, plus the amount of Taels 18,500 newly added as extra duty and lekin for the Prefecture of T’ai-wan (Formosa.)
- Alternative form of Taiwan (city of Tainan) Consternation and despair seized the district, and great numbers of sectaries and their families flocked together for the defence of their hearths and homes. Ch'ai Ta-ki abandoned Chang-hwa, and retired into T'ai-wan 臺灣, the chief city of the island....The rapid success of the insurgents was party o
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