Definition of taiwan Taiwan
/tajˈwɑˈn/ - [taywan] - Tai•wan
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What does taiwan mean?
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| taiwan - a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong | ||
| China, Nationalist China, Republic of China | ||
| south china sea a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons | ||
| capital of taiwan, taipeh, taipei the capital of Nationalist China; located in northern Taiwan | ||
| taichung a city in Taiwan | ||
| chinese any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system | ||
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taiwan
A partially recognised state in East Asia which governs a number of islands claimed by the People's Republic of China, including the island of Taiwan.
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Taiwan (Traditional Chinese: 臺灣 or 台灣, Simplified Chinese: 台湾, Pinyin: Taiwan) is a democratic island country, officially known as the Republic of China (Taiwan) in East Asia. It is southeast of the communist People's Republic of China (PRC), south of Japan, and north of the Philippines. It includes the Pescadores islands. They are located nearby. Taiwan's old name was Formosa. It means "beautiful island" in Portuguese.
The largest cities on Taiwan are the capital of Taipei and Kaohsiung.
Most people living in Taiwan (sometimes called Taiwanese) are Han. There are also Taiwanese Aborigines who lived on Taiwan before the Han came to live there.
Taiwan has three large Han groups. They are different in language and places where their ancestors came from: the Southern Fujianese (from China's Fujian Province), the Hakka (from China), and Mainlanders (from Mainland China after 1948).
these so-called "Han" were really Taiwanese Aborigines
who were forced to become like Chinese by the Qing Dynasty.
The communist People's Republic of China (PRC) says that Taiwan belongs to them, and does not think the Republic of China (Taiwan) has a right to exist as a country. But most Taiwanese citizens think the ROC (Taiwan) does not belong to the People's Republic of China and that the ROC (Taiwan) is a free country. Still others think that Taiwan should change their name to the "Republic of Taiwan" instead of using the current name Republic of China (Taiwan).
Status of Taiwan.
There are two Chin
Part of speech
🔤- taiwan, noun, singular of taiwans.
