Taai-oaan (Harnji)

Taai-oaan 🔊 (taai+oaan; Harnji: 臺灣/臺員/臺圓; Taioaan)

Pronunciation

• Put taai 🔊 (curving-up tone) together with oaan 🔊 (also curving-up)
• We write this as Template:Tts2, because the curving-up tone converts to basic tone due to tone sandhi.
• Modern Literal Taiwanese is inclined to the Ciangciw-oe variant. IPA: Template:Tts2
  • You will also hear the Zoanciw-oe "accent" in the north of Taiwan. IPA: Template:Tts2

Proper noun

臺灣 (tr., MTL Taioaan, MTLP Taai 🔊+oaan 🔊, POJ Tâi-ôan, s. 台湾)

1. Taiwan

Usage notes

• Reading of Harnji "灣" is usually (oafn 🔊) (high tone/#1). The reading of "oaan 🔊" (curving up tone/#5) here is rare.

• Historical variants 臺員 and 臺圓 (Taai oaan 🔊) are both properly read as Template:Tts2.

• "Taai-oaan" sounds like Taixoaan 🔊 in the northern accent, historically found in Zoanciw, Hokkiexn.

Derived terms

• 臺灣海峽 (Taioaan Haykiab)
• 臺灣人 (Taioaan-laang)