Daan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "daan"

English

Daan District
Administration Center
Taipei City

Alternative forms

• Taan, Ta-an (Wade–Giles)
• Da'an, Da-an

Etymology

From the Mandarin 大安 (Dà'ān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɑˈɑn/, enPR: däʹänʹ

Proper noun

Daan

1. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
   • 2005, Jeff Rovin, “Taipei, Taiwan”, in War of Eagles (Tom Clancy's Op-Center)‎^[2] (Fiction), New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 100:

     "We've had a hit in the Daan District," the CID dispatcher said over the phone. "One hundred percent match over a cell phone."

   • 2015, Sarah Clark, editor, Taipei (Insight Guides)‎^[3], 3rd edition (Travel), Apa Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:

     Heavily residential Daan District is the most crowded, with 27,600 people per square kilometer.

   • 2017 October 24, “How fireflies were brought back from the brink in urban Taipei”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], archived from the original on 2017-10-24, Society‎^[5]:

     Over the past four years, Taipei has spent NT$50 million (about US$1.6 million) on the project, which has established sustainable firefly populations in the Wenshan, Daan and Chungshan districts of the city.

   • 2021 May 14, Georgina Adam, “Taiwan and the balance of power”, in Financial Times‎^[6], archived from the original on 15 May 2021:

     “In Taiwan, the older generation still buys at auction, whereas the younger generation is more open to exploring galleries; they are diligent in going to biennales and art fairs, they have lived abroad, and they are very much tastemakers for contemporary art,” says Shasha Tittmann, the Taiwanese-born director of Lehmann Maupin gallery in Hong Kong. The gallery is set to open a pop-up ground-floor space in Taipei’s Daan district from June to August this year, showing work by McArthur Binion, Robin Rhode, David Salle, Tom Friedman and Angel Otero among others.

   • 2021 October 18, KARINE MONIÉ, “House tour: a serene Taiwan home with the perfect mix of modern elements and rustic touches”, in Vogue Australia‎^[7], archived from the original on 21 October 2021:

     Moving back to Taiwan after spending nine years in Canada is a big change. To make it a little bit smoother, the inhabitants of this house—a couple with two children—wanted to feel and be connected to the natural environment. Located in the residential Daan District in Taipei, Taiwan, the home is very quiet, yet conveniently close to the bustling Dongmen Market. The couple—comprising a jewellery brand owner and a yoga instructor—immediately fell in love with the place.

   • 2022 December 23, Matthew Strong, “KMT lawmaker accused of avoiding by-election”, in Taiwan News‎^[8], archived from the original on 31 March 2023:

     Critics accused Lin of putting her personal interests first, of leaving Taipei City without a second vice mayor for at least one month and one week, and the city’s Daan District without a legislator for one year.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Daan.
2. A district of Taichung, Taiwan.

Usage notes

In the context of Hanyu Pinyin, Daan can be considered a misspelling of Da'an. In theory, a syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)) should be added before a non-initial syllable beginning with a, o, or e. Hence, Daan is not allowed since a word made up of da and an would be spelled as Da'an (cf. Da'an). In practice, syllable-dividing marks are often added or omitted at will.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大安 (zh) (Dà'ān)

Cebuano

Etymology

From daan.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Da‧an

Proper noun

Daan

1. a surname from Cebuano

Dutch

Etymology

Shortening of Daniël.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Daan
• Rhymes: -aːn

Proper noun

Daan m

1. a male given name

Anagrams

• naad, nada

Estonian

Proper noun

Daan

1. Dan, the fifth son of Jacob
2. one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, descended from Dan

   Ja Daani maa-ala kõrval, idakaare poolt läänekaare poole: Aaserile üks osa.

   And next to the territory of Dan, from the east to the west: one portion to Asher.

Declension

Declension of Daan (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Daan	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Daani
genitive			—
partitive		Daani	—
illative		Daani Daanisse	—
inessive		Daanis	—
elative		Daanist	—
allative		Daanile	—
adessive		Daanil	—
ablative		Daanilt	—
translative		Daaniks	—
terminative		Daanini	—
essive		Daanina	—
abessive		Daanita	—
comitative		Daaniga	—