Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Chinese astronaut.
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- noun A person who travels in space for the Chinese space program; a Chinese
astronaut .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Among the Xinhua articles is one celebrating the spread of the neologism "taikonaut" ...
Boing Boing 2008
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2003: First "taikonaut" — from "taikong," the Chinese word for space — is sent into orbit.
Orbital Paths of U.S., China Set to Diverge Jeremy Page 2010
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"taikonaut" to walk in space during the Shenzhou VII mission, China's third manned space flight, which is slated to blast off Thursday night.
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By 2020, according to the plan, a taikonaut could land on the moon.
Mistrust stalls U.S.-China space cooperation Keith B. Richburg 2011
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By 2020, according to the plan, a taikonaut could land on the moon.
Mistrust stalls U.S.-China space cooperation Keith B. Richburg 2011
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Why not do an intergovernmental barter in return for taikonaut visits?
Bush Says No to Space Cooperation With China - Update - NASA Watch 2008
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I'm still drinking dehydrated taikonaut water so I can look period-correct while 被擦掉-ing my future bike.
Pimping Your Ride: Making Money With Your Bike BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Pioneering taikonaut Yang Liwei is competing with 13 others for the two-man orbital flight of the Shenzhou VI, which Chinese officials have said could last five to seven days.
PERISCOPE 2007
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Officials have recently backpedaled from goals of putting a taikonaut the Chinese version of an astronaut or cosmonaut on the moon by 2020, but analysts believe that is still a pressing ambition.
China, Space, Education and Obama Zoe Brain 2007
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Officials have recently backpedaled from goals of putting a taikonaut the Chinese version of an astronaut or cosmonaut on the moon by 2020, but analysts believe that is still a pressing ambition.
Archive 2007-11-01 Zoe Brain 2007
john commented on the word taikonaut
"The government is clearly hoping to reap a major public relations coup, both internationally and domestically, with the flight of the Shenzhou V. If successful, the mission will make China the third nation to have sent an astronaut, or taikonaut here, into space."
The New York Times, China to Launch Manned Spacecraft Next Week, by Jim Yardley, October 10, 2003
September 26, 2008
bilby commented on the word taikonaut
I like this note in the Wikipedia discussion of the term:
"In official Chinese-language texts, the terms yǔhángyuán (宇航员, 'sailing personnel in universe') for cosmonaut and hángtiānyuán (航天员, 'sailing personnel in sky') for astronaut have long been used."
June 17, 2012