English
Taiyuan
Taiyuan comes from Mandarin 太原.
- Mandarinmodern太原
- Englishearliest quotation 1945Taiyuan
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern太原
- Englishearliest quotation 1945Taiyuan
Earliest quotation: 1945, Charles J. V. Murphy, China Reborn: “Shansi (population 12,000,000): On the surface Taiyuan, the capital…”
Every English word from Mandarin 太原
Today it means
name A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Shanxi, in northern China.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 太原 / Taiyuan