Taiwan is the mountainous island of Taipei, famous for making the world's chips. Travel to Taiwan, eastern Taiwan, the government of Taiwan.
One company there makes the large majority of the world's most advanced computer chips, which gives a small island extraordinary weight in world affairs. Its political status is disputed and most countries have no formal relations with it while trading heavily.
1nountaiwanAn island off the coast of East Asia.
“Taiwan is an island famous for its busy night markets and street food.”
taiwan is a place.
lzh-lit
臺灣
cmn-wadegiles
Tʻai²-wan¹
English
Taiwan
English, today
taiwan
Taiwan The specific form "Taiwan" in English emerged from the cmn-wadegiles Tʻai²-wan¹ romanization of cmn - 臺灣, and also perhaps the romaji of Japanese - 臺灣, both of which are ultimately from lzh-lit 臺灣lzh, from nan-hbl - 大員, 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 fos -. Cognate with Dutch Tayouan / Taioan / Taiwan / etc., and other early variant forms of nan-hbl 臺窩灣, etc. The name is sometimes folk-etymologized to have originally meant "terraced bay" (臺灣), "great bay" (大灣), or similar parsings from interpretations of the Chinese characters alone.
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