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tai
/taɪ/
name 12noun 4
Collocations
5ADJ.
calm, elderly, improved, near, old
VERB + TAI
believes, doing, lived, mount, part, play, practiced, practices
TAI + NOUN
chi, county, height, ji, practitioner, shansi, today's, twenty-year-old
PREP.
in, in
ADV.
almost, originally
Definitions
noun
1
A fish, the Japanese bream.
name
1
A local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
2
A female given name from Chinese.
3
A branch of the Tai-Kadai language family, including Thai, Lao, Shan, and Zhuang.
noun
1
A descendant of speakers of a common proto-Tai language, including subpopulations which no longer speak a Tai language.
The Tais first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in number.
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Idioms & Phrases
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The Tais first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in numb
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The first ancestor of Zhou tribe was Hou Ji who originally lived in Tai (today's Wugong of Shaanxi), and duke of Liu, his successor, moved to Bin (today's Bin county of Shaanxi), and then passed down
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Five short stories concern land reform, elections in the border region, and anti-Japanese activities:[...] e) “Feng-pao Tai-hsien-chʻeng” 風暴代縣城 (Storms in Tai County). A twenty-year-old anti-Japanese
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Kuang-wu 廣武 lay in the southwestern part of today's Tai County 代縣, Shansi; Wu and Lu, 93.3392n.
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Kou-chu Mountains: today called Yen-men Mountains, a mountain range located to the southeast of Ma-yi, near present-day Tai county, in Shansi (Chung-kuo li-shih ti-t'u chi, 2:17-18, 3-10).
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The company on Nov. 3 last year asked an employee surnamed Tai (戴) to deliver 10 barrels of silane — a flammable alkaline substance — from Pingtung County’s Chaojhou Township (潮州) to Sinyuan Township
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