Etymology

T'ai-wan

Mandarin 臺灣 /台灣
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  1. Mandarin · borrowed from臺灣 /台灣
  2. English todayT'ai-wan

From Mandarin 臺灣 /台灣 (Táiwān) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-wan¹.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.