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Tai'an
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taian T'ai-an
English
Tai'an
Alternative forms
en Taian
en T'ai-an Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 泰安.
Pronunciation
en /ˈtaɪˌɑn/ /-æn/
tīʹänʹen 1952 Taian or T’ai-an Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1863 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1863/ 3
en Tai an
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Shandong c/China.
en AUGUST 31, 2007 Police uncover China's largest online pyramid scam https://web.archive.org/web/20200930174606/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pyramid-scheme-idUST26828720070831 30 September 2020 w:Reuters Internet News Chinese police have uncovered the country’s largest alleged on-line pyramid selling scheme, involving 170,000 people and 1.36 billion yuan ($180 million), state media said on Friday.Authorities in Tai’an city, in the eastern Shandong province, uncovered the scheme named “Swiss Mutual Fund” in May, which was found to be illegal after investigation, xinhua said.The uncovered scheme in Tai’an is just part of China’s campaign against pyramid selling from July 16 to August 15 this year, xinhua said.
en 2012 Aminta Arrington Gate Home is a Roof over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China https://archive.org/details/homeisroofoverpi0000arri/ New York w:The Overlook Press 978-1-59020-899-1 759173570 26074257M 17–18 https://archive.org/details/homeisroofoverpi0000arri/page/17/ Our medical college lay nestled beneath the famed Taishan (pronounced Tie-shawn), or Mount Tai, the foremost of China’s five sacred mountains and the pride of the city of Tai’an, even all of Shandong province. We lived on the university’s old campus at the foot of Mount Tai, just at the edge of downtown Tai’an.
en village town/Beiwan county/Jingyuan prefecture-level city/Baiyin p/Gansu c/China.
Synonyms
historical en Tai-ngan
prefecture-level city en Taianfu (obsolete)
Translations
prefecture-level city in China; village in western China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 泰安
Mandarin: cmn 泰安 Tài'ān
Hungarian: hu Tajan
References
Anagrams
en aaint Anita NAATI Tania Tiaan Tiana tania