Taipei

[ tahy-pey; Chinese 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.

Notes

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

Example Sentences

Many offices have sent workers home, the streets of the capital Taipei have cleared out and the government has begun scrambling to secure vaccines to improve one of the worst inoculation rates in the developed world.

From Time

Taiwan’s current community outbreak began in April with cargo plane crews at the Novotel at Taipei’s Taoyuan International Airport.

From Time

She is part of a “new Renaissance” of technology in T City, which is not quite future Taipei.

From MIT Technology Review

A 30-year-old woman was confirmed to have caught Covid-19 in Taiwan, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said at a briefing in Taipei Tuesday.

From Fortune

A Taipei, Taiwan based innovative computer hardware company, was established in 1976 by Chen Jung Shih.

From Popular-Science

In Taipei, Taiwan, a Bach flash mob consisting of cellists and tuba players took over a train.

From The Daily Beast

Prescriptivist grammarians will have a boisterous time reading Taipei.

From The Daily Beast

Taipei is exactly the kind of book I hoped Tao Lin would one day write.

From The Daily Beast

After 30 years in the United States, his parents have moved to a 14th-floor apartment in Taipei.

From The Daily Beast

Designed by Jason Wu, who was born in Taipei, Taiwan, it celebrated the next generation of American designers.

From The Daily Beast