Đài Loan

== Vietnamese == === Etymology === Sino-Vietnamese word from 臺灣, with 2nd element's pronunciation possibly descending from a dialectal Middle Chinese ancestor with initial *l- from Old Chinese *C.r-, instead of from *Cr- like 灣 (MC 'waen), whence Mandarin 灣 / 湾 (wān), Cantonese 灣 / 湾 (waan1), etc. === Pronunciation === (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩ lwaːn˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˦˩ lwaːŋ˧˧] (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗaːj˨˩ l⁽ʷ⁾aːŋ˧˧] === Proper noun === Đài Loan • (臺灣, 台灣) Taiwan (a partly-recognized country in East Asia consisting of a main island and 167 smaller islands) Taiwan (an island between the Taiwan Strait and Philippine Sea in East Asia) === Adjective === Đài Loan Taiwanese ==== Derived terms ==== === See also === Trung Hoa Dân quốc (“Republic of China”) Trung Hoa Đài Bắc (“Chinese Taipei”)