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tai¹

Where it comes from

From Japanese 鯛 (たい, tai).

noun

  1. A fish, the Japanese bream.

Tai²

  • /taɪ/

Sounds like Thai, tie, Ty · Rhymes with -aɪ

proper noun

  1. A local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
  2. A female given name from Chinese.
  3. A branch of the Tai-Kadai language family, including Thai, Lao, Shan, and Zhuang.

noun Tais · Tai

  1. A descendant of speakers of a common proto-Tai language, including subpopulations which no longer speak a Tai language. The Tais first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in number.

Tai³

Where it comes from

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 邰 (Tái) and 斄 /𭤎 (Tái).

proper noun

  1. historical An ancient city and former polity under the Xia dynasty in present-day Wugong, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China. The first ancestor of Zhou tribe was Hou Ji who originally lived in Tai (today's Wugong of Shaanxi), and duke of Liu, his successor, moved to Bin (today's Bin county of Shaanxi), and then passed down to the lord of Dan.[…] Qi later settled down in Tai (southwest of Wugong county of today's Shaanxi)
  2. A surname from Chinese.

Tai⁴

Where it comes from

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 代 (dài).

proper noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of Dai Five short stories concern land reform, elections in the border region, and anti-Japanese activities:[...] e) “Feng-pao Tai-hsien-chʻeng” 風暴代縣城 (Storms in Tai County). A twenty-year-old anti-Japanese hero does not surrender even when he is captured and executed.

Tai⁵

Where it comes from

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 戴 (Dài), as well as from its Cantonese pronunciation Daai³.

proper noun

  1. A surname. The company on Nov. 3 last year asked an employee surnamed Tai (戴) to deliver 10 barrels of silane — a flammable alkaline substance — from Pingtung County’s Chaojhou Township (潮州) to Sinyuan Township (新園) without telling him what the cargo would be, Tseng said at a news conference on behalf of Tai,

TAI⁶

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of trifluoromethylaminoindane
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of technical analysis indicator

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Frenchtemps atomique international (“International Atomic Time”), a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Toshiba America, Inc..
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Turkish Aerospace Industries
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Thai Airways International
  5. abbreviation, historical, initialism Initialism of Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux, a now defunct French airline.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: thai, siamese, tay, crested, taj, wearing, macro, wear, steep, ping, dai, wantonly, heavy, top, gran, giant

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Françaistaï
Tiếng ViệtThái

name ancient town and state

中文邰 Tái, 斄 /𭤎 Tái

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@misc{tai_2026,
  title = {tai},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tai},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}