T'ai-nan

From Mandarin 臺南／台南 (Táinán) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-nan².

T'ai-nan

1. Alternative spelling of Tainan
   • 1986 October 20, “Taiwan: The Winds of Change”, in Newsweek‎, volume CVIII, number 16, page 40:

     A country that can no longer rely on cheap labor: Space-age lab in Hsin-chu, producing salt near T'ai-nan

   • 1998, “Introduction”, in No trace of the gardener : poems of Yang Mu‎, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page xiv:

     Among his poems is “Zeelandia,” written in early 1975. The title refers to An-p’ing, a fortress in T’ai-nan, in southern Taiwan, where the Dutch landed more than three centuries ago.

   • 2001, Robert Green, Taiwan‎, Lucent Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 88:

     As a candidate in 1985 in his native T'ai-nan county, his wife was struck by a speeding motorist and was paralyzed from the waist down.

   • 2010, Uncle John's Creature Feature Bathroom Reader For Kids Only (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader)‎, Ashland, Oregon: Bathroom Readers' Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 356:

     Frightened bus drivers in Taiwan have refused to drive to a remote village outside of T'ai-nan because of one ghostly girl. Drivers report stopping at a shadowy area near a sugarcane plantation. A young girl gets on the bus but never gets off. She simply vanishes before the bus gets to town.

   • 2023 January 29, Sayyad, Raeesa, “Interesting and Fun Facts about Bubble Tea”, in Time Bulletin‎, archived from the original on 05 February 2023:

     In Taiwan, where it originated, bubble tea is a popular beverage that is now enjoyed worldwide. In the middle of the 1980s, the city of T'ai-nan, Taiwan, was the birthplace of bubble tea.

• “T'ai-nan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “T'ai-nan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “T'ai-nan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

• Antian, naiant, tannia