Tai

proper noun

1. 1

   A local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria.

2. 2

   A female given name from Chinese.

3. 3

   A branch of the Tai-Kadai language family, including Thai, Lao, Shan, and Zhuang.

noun

1. 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.

proper noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   A surname from Chinese.

proper noun

1. 1

   Variant of DaiAlternative form of Dai.

   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 hero does not surrender even when he is captured and executed.

   Kuang-wu 廣武 lay in the southwestern part of today's Tai County 代縣, Shansi; Wu and Lu, 93.3392n.

   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).

proper noun

1. 1

   A surname.

   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 (新園) without telling him what the cargo would be, Tseng said at a news conference on behalf of Tai, adding that the company did not even have a license to deliver the dangerous substance.

Forms

plural

Tais