Taian
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Taian
- Alternative form of Tai'an
- 1994 December 4, Nicholas D. Kristof, “Seeing China Under Your Own Steam”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Travel, page 12[2]:
- After five or six days in Beijing and Datong, head south to Taian in Shandong Province -- again by train, the means of locomotion for most Chinese traveling between cities. One of your short rail journeys in China should be by hard seat, the cheapest class, which is how ordinary Chinese travel, but the nine-hour journey from Beijing to Taian is not the one to spend jammed in an uncomfortable railroad car as people spit on the floor and converse raucously about the large size of foreigners' noses.
Taian is the town at the base of Mount Tai, or Taishan as the holy mountain is called in Chinese.
- 2021 December 14, Muyu Xu, Min Zhang, Dominique Patton, “China oil hub Shandong slammed over illegal capacity”, in Reuters[3], archived from the original on 14 December 2021[4]:
- In recent months they have been targeted by a government crackdown on illicit oil quota trading and irregular fuel tax practices. read more
The MEE also found the cities of Jining and Taian had illegally launched coke projects with annual capacities of 2.6 million and 4 million tonnes, respectively.
Usage notes
[edit]In the context of Hanyu Pinyin, Taian can be considered a misspelling of Tai'an. In theory, a syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)) should be added before a non-initial syllable beginning with a, o, or e. Hence, Taian is not allowed since a word made up of tai and an would be spelled as Tai'an (cf. Tai'an). In practice, syllable-dividing marks are often added or omitted at will.