Taioaan

Taioaan (Taiwan) si oar Thaepeng'viuu saihvoa ee tøfsu, kab Tiongkog cikafn keq cidtiaau Of-Zuykaw. Y køq høxzøx Formosa, si axn Portugal-guo (Ilha) Formosa laai`ee, iesux si "Byle (Tør)".

Taioaan ee suokuix bøchviu huixto khaq koaan ee kokto hunbeeng. Y ee unto zhaputtøf ti 6-to kaux 36-to tiongkafn. Øexsae korng si suokuix-juu-zhwn, cyn sek'hap laang toax ee sofzai.

Taioaan ma u laang zhengho si Pøftør (寶島).

Tøexmiaa

"Taioaan" si Siraya-guo laai`ee. (Tayuan / Tayoan)

"Formosa" cyn tngg sikafn si Seviuu tuix Taioaan (台灣) zwiaux ee høxmiaa. Jidpurn sitai khaisie tvia eng Jidgie ee Lømafji "Taiwan", mxkøq sixnkaux Ciaoau zhokii Seviuu ee bunciofng iao køq koarnsix eng "Formosa".

Ti sengbut hagmiaa tiofng, na Taioaan hoat'hien ee budzerng tvia eng "formosanus" iah si "formosana" zøx zefngsiøfmiaa. Na si "formosa" zøx zefngsiøfmiaa, kab Taioaan khaq bøo koanhe.

Tuliao Formosa iah Taioaan, kithvaf cie Taioaan ee ji køq u Taixoaan (大員) tefngterng.

Taiwan

• In Modern Literal Taiwanese, "Taiwan" is written Taioaan.
• In Chinese characters for Mandarin, it is officially written 臺灣.
• See Taai-oaan (Harnji) for more details.

• About 180 km east of coastal Fujian (Hokkiexn, which lies across the Taiwan Strait).
• To the south, the island of Taiwan is separated from the Philippine island of Luzon by the 250 km-wide Luzon Strait.
• The true derivation of the name "Taiwan" is actually from the ethnonym of a tribe in the southwest part of the island. (Mair (2003): How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language)

Siongkoafn

• Taioaan legsuo
• Taioaan legsuo nipiør
• Tionghoaa Binkog
• Taioaan jinbut liedtvoaf
• Taixoaan (大員/大圓)
• Tai'øoaan (臺窩灣)
• List of administrative divisions of Taiwan