台湾
臺灣Meanings
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- 1.Taiwan
- 1.variant of 台湾[Tái wān]
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- 1.Taiwan (island)
- 2.Taiwan Province (administrative division in both the Republic of China and People's Republic of China)
- 3.Taiwan Area (Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and some minor islands, which are de facto governed by the Republic of China)
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Etymology
Appears to be first attested in a memorial to the imperial government by official He Kai (何楷) in 1635: : 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. Possibly derived from Siraya. By surface analysis, 臺 /台 (tái, “terraced”) + 灣 /湾 (wān, “bay”).
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