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/taɪ/
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taɪ
Proper noun
A local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
A female given name from Chinese.
A branch of the Tai-Kadai language family, including Thai, Lao, Shan, and Zhuang.
Noun
A descendant of speakers of a common proto-Tai language, including subpopulations which no longer speak a Tai language.
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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
An ancient city and former polity under the Xia dynasty in present-day Wugong, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
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The first ancestor of Zhou tribe was Hou Ji who originally lived in Tai (today's Wugong of Shaanxi), and duke of Liu, his successor, moved to Bin (today's Bin county of Shaanxi), and then passed down to the lord of Dan.[…] Qi later settled down in Tai (southwest of Wugong county of today's Shaanxi), which was located the center of the fertile land of Weibei Plain.[…] The poem Duke Liu, which only has 6 sections and 234 Chinese characters in total, vividly narrates duke Liu's moving from Tai (today's Wugong county, Shaanxi province) to Bin (today's Binxian county, Shaanxi province) and big events regarding him in a very organized structure.
A surname from Chinese.
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A surname.
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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.
Katherine Tai, President Biden’s pick for United States trade representative, promised lawmakers during her confirmation hearing on Thursday that she would work with Congress to help reinvigorate the economy and aggressively enforce American trade rules against China, Mexico and other trading partners. Ms. Tai, in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, said her background challenging China’s unfair trade practices in the Obama administration had given her knowledge of “the opportunities and limitations in our existing toolbox.”
Adjective
of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people
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Siamese kings
different Thai tribes live in the north
of or relating to the languages of the Thai people
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of or relating to Thailand
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the Thai border with Laos
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a native or inhabitant of Thailand
the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages
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