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Tai.

A local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria.

3 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/taɪ/
  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/taɪ/
  1. A descendant of speakers of a common proto-Tai language, including subpopulations which no longer speak a Tai language.

name
  1. An ancient city and former polity under the Xia dynasty in present-day Wugong, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

    historical
  2. A surname from Chinese.

Where this word comes from

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 邰 (Tái) and 斄 /𭤎 (Tái).

name
  1. A surname.

Where this word comes from

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 戴 (Dài), as well as from its Cantonese pronunciation Daai³.

name
  1. Alternative form of Dai.

    alt-of · alternative
Where this word comes from

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 代 (dài).

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