{"path":"/entry/19101","title":"台湾 / 臺灣 (tái wān) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"台湾 / 臺灣 (tái wān): Taiwan. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":19101,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["台湾"],"TRADITIONAL":["臺灣"]}},"phonetic":"tái wān","phoneticKey":"tai2 wan1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"Taiwan","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","PLACE_NAME"],"frequency":14804,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[{"readingId":90604,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["台湾岛"],"TRADITIONAL":["臺灣島"]}},"phonetic":"tái wān dǎo","gloss":{"simplified":"Taiwan Island","traditional":null}}],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":{"simplified":"Taiwan","traditional":null},"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":3237,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["中"],"TRADITIONAL":["中"]}},"phonetic":"zhōng","gloss":{"simplified":"(bound form) China","traditional":null}},{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":3299,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["中国"],"TRADITIONAL":["中國"]}},"phonetic":"zhōng guó","gloss":{"simplified":"China","traditional":null}},{"kind":"PART_MERONYM","readingId":19078,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["台北市"],"TRADITIONAL":["台北市"]}},"phonetic":"tái běi shì","gloss":{"simplified":"Taibei or Taipei, capital of Taiwan","traditional":null}},{"kind":"MEMBER_MERONYM","readingId":3304,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["中国人"],"TRADITIONAL":["中國人"]}},"phonetic":"zhōng guó rén","gloss":{"simplified":"Chinese person","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Appears to be first attested in a memorial to the imperial government by official He Kai (何楷) in 1635:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Officially, no later than 1684 with the creation of Taiwan Prefecture (臺灣府). A phonetic transliteration of an ethnonym of a tribe in the southwest part of the island in the area of Anping, Tainan, southwest Taiwan, variously recorded in Dutch records as Tayouan or Tayowan or Taiouwang. A Dutch missionary referred to this group as Taiouwang no later than 1636. Other phonetic transliterations in Chinese characters included 大員 [1603], 大圓 [1617], 臺員, and 大灣 [circa 1624], as placenames 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 that eventually became the name of the entire island.","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Possibly derived from Siraya.","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"By surface analysis, 台 (tái, “terraced”) + 湾 (wān, “bay”).","traditional":"By surface analysis, 臺 (tái, “terraced”) + 灣 (wān, “bay”)."}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"今欲靖寇氛，非墟其窟不可。其窟维何？台湾是也。台湾在彭湖岛外，距漳、泉止两日夜程，地广而腴。","traditional":"今欲靖寇氛，非墟其窟不可。其窟維何？臺灣是也。臺灣在彭湖島外，距漳、泉止兩日夜程，地廣而腴。"},"phonetic":"Jīn yù jìng kòufēn, fēi xū qí kū bùkě. Qí kū wéi hé? Táiwān shì yě. Táiwān zài Pénghú dǎo wài, jù Zhāng, Quán zhǐ liǎng rì yè chéng, dì guǎng ér yú.","english":"If we are to subdue the bandits, we must destroy their hideout. Where is their hideout, then? It's Taiwan. Taiwan is further from Penghu, with a distance of two days away from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and the land is large and fertile.","ref":"17ᵗʰ-18ᵗʰ century, History of Ming"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":20,"sourceName":"TOCFL","name":"Novice 1"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}