Taipei

Pinyin, Tai·bei

[tahy-pey, tahy-bey]

noun

Wade-Giles.

1. a city in and the capital of Taiwan, in the N part.

Taipei

/ ˈtaɪˈpeɪ /

noun

1. the capital of Taiwan (the Republic of China), at the N tip of the island: became capital in 1885; industrial centre; two universities. Pop: 2 473 000 (2005 est)

Taipei

1. Capital of Taiwan and largest city in the country, located in northern Taiwan.

In 1949, Taipei became the headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalists, who had been forced to flee mainland China.

Example Sentences

“The U.S. has kept approving sizable arms packages for Taipei even as economic talks continue,” said Craig Singleton, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank.

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Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Jakarta fell, while Tokyo was marginally lower and Sydney, Singapore, Taipei and Wellington all edged into the green.

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Hong Kong and Seoul jumped more than one percent, while Sydney, Singapore, Wellington and Taipei were also well up, though Shanghai and Manila retreated.

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Taipei resident Jay Tsai hopes he never needs the crisis guide Taiwan is handing out to millions of households across the island, which faces threats of natural disasters and a Chinese invasion.

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"Demand for critical components in AI infrastructure is already far outpacing supply, and we expect that will only continue," OpenAI head Sam Altman said Friday by video link at a Foxconn event in Taipei.

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