Talk:Tai-pan

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For older discussions, see Talk:Tai-Pan (disambiguation).

[edit] Tai-Pan

• Hmm... my source says that it literally meant Supreme (Tai) Leader (Pan). Is this Pan word indigenous to Chinese, or is it a loan from Mongolian or something? Alexander 007 09:43, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Your source is likely Noble House. That same book (or it might have been Tai-Pan - by the same author) claims that phrase was normally used by the Chinese for the manager of a public outhouse, and thus calling foreigners that way served to secretly belittle them. The Chinese would call themselves something similar, according to that book. Dorfl (talk) 16:54, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Add IPA

Say it is pronounced like IPA: /dai ban/.Jidanni (talk) 23:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)