Tai'anとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Taian
• T'ai-an (Wade–Giles)

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 泰安 (Tài'ān).

発音

• IPA: /ˈtaɪˌɑn/, /-æn/

固有名詞

Tai'an

1. A prefecture-level city in Shandong, China.
   • 2007 August 31, “Police uncover China's largest online pyramid scam”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 30 September 2020, Internet News‎:

     Chinese police have uncovered the country’s largest alleged on-line pyramid selling scheme, involving 170,000 people and 1.36 billion yuan ($180 million), state media said on Friday.
     Authorities in Tai’an city, in the eastern Shandong province, uncovered the scheme named “Swiss Mutual Fund” in May, which was found to be illegal after investigation, xinhua said. […]
     The uncovered scheme in Tai’an is just part of China’s campaign against pyramid selling from July 16 to August 15 this year, xinhua said.

   • 2012, Aminta Arrington, “Gate”, in Home is a Roof over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China‎, New York: The Overlook Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 17–18:

     Our medical college lay nestled beneath the famed Taishan (pronounced Tie-shawn), or Mount Tai, the foremost of China’s five sacred mountains and the pride of the city of Tai’an, even all of Shandong province. We lived on the university’s old campus at the foot of Mount Tai, just at the edge of downtown Tai’an.

2. A village in Beiwan, Jingyuan, Baiyin, Gansu, China.

同意語

• (historical) Tai-ngan
• (prefecture-level city): Taianfu (obsolete)

アナグラム

• Anita, NAATI, Tania, Tiaan, Tiana, tania

使用する際の注意点

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.