Taiwan

台湾

发音

US /ˌtaɪ̯ˈwɑn/
AU /ˌtɑɪ̯ˈwaːn/
AU /ˌtɑɪ̯ˈwɔn/
AU /ˌtɑɪ̯ˈwan/
UK /ˌtaɪ̯ˈwɑːn/
UK /ˌtaɪ̯ˈwæn/
UK /ˌtaɪ̯ˈwɒn/
其它 /ˌt̪aɪ̯ˈwan̪/

别名

Taïwan Tay-wan Tai-wan T'ai-wan Tywan Taywan Tayuan Tayoan Tayouan

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A partly-recognized country in East Asia consisting of a main island and 167 smaller islands. Official name: Republic of China. Capital: Taipei.

    台湾

    宝岛

    东番

    福尔摩沙

  2. 2.

    An island between the Taiwan Strait and Philippine Sea in East Asia.

  3. 3.

    A former administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.

    A former prefecture of Fujian province in China (Qing Empire) (1683–1885).

    历史
  4. 4.

    A former administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.

    A former province of China (Qing Empire) (1885–1895).

    历史
  5. 5.

    A former administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.

    A former dependency of Japan (1895–1945).

    历史
  6. 6.

    A former administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.

    A province of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (from 1945).

    法律
  7. 7.

    A former administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.

    The territory currently under the de facto jurisdiction of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

    法律
  8. 8.

    A former administrative division including Taiwan and nearby islands.

    A claimed province of the People's Republic of China (from 1949).

  9. 9.

    Synonym of Tainan, a city of Taiwan, former capital of Taiwan Province.

    历史
  10. 10.

    2169 Taiwan, a main belt asteroid.

    天文

相关短语

Taiwan Strait n. 台湾海崃 Taiwan Dog 台湾犬 Taiwan Dogs Taiwan Straits Taiwan field mouse 台湾森鼠 Taiwan pear Taiwan pears Taiwan field mice Taiwan studies 台湾学 Taiwan firecrest Taiwan flamecrest Taiwan firecrests Taiwan flamecrests New Taiwan dollar 新台币 New Taiwan dollars

词源

The specific form "Taiwan" in English emerged from the Wade–Giles Tʻai²-wan¹ romanization of Mandarin 臺灣／台湾 (Táiwān), and also perhaps the romaji of Japanese 臺灣(たいわん) (taiwan), both of which are ultimately from Literary Chinese 臺灣, from Hokkien 大員 (Tāi-oân), 大圓, 臺員, 大灣, 臺灣, and other forms, a placename initially referring to a sandbank peninsula that later silted up; now wholly part of the island in the area of modern-day Anping District, Tainan, and eventually became the name of the entire island. The original placename itself was originally likely the transcription of a loanword from Siraya. Cognate with Dutch Tayouan / Taioan / Taiwan / etc., and other early variant forms of Hokkien 臺窩灣 /台窝湾 (Tâi-o-oân), etc. The name is sometimes folk-etymologized to have originally meant "terraced bay" (臺灣 /台湾), "great bay" (大灣 /大湾), or similar parsings from interpretations of the Chinese characters alone.

来源：wiktionary