Noun
- 1. Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China
- usage: a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong
- 2. Taiwan, Formosa
- usage: an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea
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