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Noun: Taiyuan  'tI'ywaan or 'tI'ywen
  1. An ancient city in northeastern China noted for coal mining and steel production
Noun: Tai Yuan
  1. A branch of the Tai languages, spoken in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lamphun, Lampang, Mae Hong Son, Sukhothai, Nan, Phayao, Phrae, Uttaradit, Tak, and Kamphaeng Phet provinces
    - Kam Muang

Type of: city, metropolis, Tai, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: Cathay [archaic], China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China [informal], Shanxi, Shanxi province

Encyclopedia: Taiyuan, Shanxi

Tai Yuan