taipei
/taɪˈpeɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The capital city of and a special municipality of Taiwan, located in the northern part of the island of Taiwan.
name
A former county of Taiwan, which became New Taipei City.
name
The government of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Example Sentences
- "In 1885 Governor LIU determined to reconstruct Taipei and make it the temporary capital until, the railway having on its way to Taiwan reached the old town of Changhua, in about the middle of Formosa, he should build a city near that place and make it, under the name of Taiwan, the capital of the province of Taiwan."
- "Radiotelephonic communications were established in November 1946 between Taipei and Canton, thus augmenting the line already existing between Taipei and Shanghai. The Chinese National Aviation Corporation, which operated air service between Shanghai and Taipei three times a week, has added weekly air service between Foochow and Taipei. The Southwest Aviation Corp. is reportedly planning a Canton-Taipei air service, and damaged Japanese military transport aircraft have been under repair for use on this route."
- "The “Beautiful Island” wears a necklace of rails and new roads dangling from Taipei, such as the 17-mile MacArthur Expressway linking the capital to the seaport of Chilung. Taiwan has two other international seaports —recently opened Hualien, on the east coast, and Kaohsiung, facing the mainland a scant 200 miles away."
- "In my bid for re-election as mayor of Taipei, I lost to Ma Ying-jeou, representing the Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan's ruling party. Analysis of the election results revealed that the overwhelming majority of "mainlanders"² in Taipei cast their votes for Mr. Ma."
- "Years later, when I was governor, I found myself in the same hotel with Nureyev in Taipei, Taiwan."
- "We lived in the county of Taoyuan, in northern Taiwan, around twenty-five miles south of the capital of Taipei."
Etymology
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