tai
noun
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major red tai, a food fish of Japan.
tai
1 American
[tahy]
/ taɪ /
noun
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tai
plural
TAI
1
British
abbreviation
Tai
2
British
/ taɪ /
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tai
1615–25; < Japanese ta ( w ) i, earlier tafi
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Here are four of Swanson’s favorite tai chi exercises to help you strengthen your balance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
That’s one of the guiding principles behind tai chi, a hundreds-year-old Chinese martial arts practice that today is considered a form of meditative movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
As they say in tai chi: “The mind leads, the body follows.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The best part of her day is when she spends evenings practicing tai chi with a half dozen friends at a nearby park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The next morning when I arrived at school to do my tai chi, Holly van Arden asked if she could join me.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
Laopu Gold is different from Chow Tai Fook Jewellery in that it’s “more of a global luxury house than a goldsmith,” the analyst writes on Smartkarma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
A successful global campaign against Iran may require Washington "to provide incentives" to Beijing to join it, said Lim Tai Wei, a professor and East Asia expert at Japan's Soka University.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Li visited Hong Kong during the Lunar New Year earlier this year, months after a massive apartment blaze in the north-eastern Tai Po district claimed 168 lives.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Tai chi is traditionally practiced in looser clothes and flat shoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Tai heads for the bed Dorothy wakes up in when she finally makes it home, and grabs one end and starts talking.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
TAI is a major player in Turkey’s aerospace industry, designing, developing and manufacturing various aircraft for commercial and military use.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
The victims were named by Turkey's state-run news agency as TAI employees Cengiz Coskun, Zahide Guclu, Atakan Sahin Erdogan, Huseyin Canbaz, as well as taxi driver Murat Arslan.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
Turkish Vice-President Cevdet Yilmaz said four of the victims were TAI employees while the fifth was a taxi driver.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024
TAI is a key player in Turkey’s aerospace industry, designing, developing and manufacturing various aircraft for commercial and military use.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
It was indeed the TAI who had taken the hook, but he had already suffered enough for his fault, if fault it could be called.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
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