Tai

Pronunciation: /taɪ/

The English word “Tai” has 4 meanings listed here.

proper noun

A local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
A branch of the Tai-Kadai language family, including Thai, Lao, Shan, and Zhuang.
An ancient city and former polity under the Xia dynasty in present-day Wugong, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

A descendant of speakers of a common proto-Tai language, including subpopulations which no longer speak a Tai language.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 邰 (Tái) and 斄 /𭤎 (Tái).

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