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Taiwanese

[ tahy-wah-neez, -nees ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Taiwan or its people.


noun

, plural Tai·wan·ese
  1. a native or inhabitant of Taiwan.
  2. the Chinese language of Taiwan, a member of the Min group.

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Example Sentences

The son of Taiwanese immigrants, he grew up in California and earned his PhD in neuroscience at Stanford.

She also shoots a Taiwanese man on an operating table—his wound is going to be fatal anyway, her health is more important.

In some cases, it is through violence toward wholly innocent members of the Taiwanese population.

That said, make no mistake—the Thai-Taiwanese syndrome is altogether new and still incompletely worked out.

In a recent example of unprecedented barbarism, pirates severed the hand of a Taiwanese fishing captain as a negotiation tactic.

In the beginning few Taiwanese qualified as teachers because, under Japanese rule, Japanese had been the medium of instruction.

For the generation in school today, the difference between mainlander and Taiwanese has lost its importance.

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