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==English==
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===Alternative forms===
* {{s|sense 1}} {{alt|en|KMT||abbreviation}}
* {{alt|en|Guomindang}}
* {{alt|en|Komintang}}
* {{alt|en|Kuomingtang||misspelling}}

===Etymology===
{{circa|1912}}, from the {{bor|en|cmn-wadegiles|-}} romanization of {{bor|en|cmn|國民黨}}, [[Wade-Giles|Wade–Giles]]: ''Kuo²-min²-tang³''.<ref><small>{{cite-book|en|year=2000|last=Wilkinson|first=Endymion
|authorlink=Endymion Wilkinson|title={{w|Chinese History: A New Manual}}|url=https://archive.org/details/chinesehistoryma0000wilk/|edition=Rev. & enl.|publisher={{w|Harvard University Press}}|ISBN=0-674-00249-0|lccn=99-056876|oclc=924956937|pages=xix-xx|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/chinesehistoryma0000wilk/page/n21/|text=Some of the most familiar names in modern Chinese history are best known in English and other languages{{...}}by their Wade Giles romanizations, for example,{{...}}KMT (short form of Wade-Giles transcription of Kuomintang, i.e, Guomindang {{lang|zh|國民黨}}, referred to as GMD).}}</small></ref>

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/kuːəʊmɪnˈtaŋ/|a=UK}}

===Proper noun===
{{en-prop}}

# A [[nationalist]] political party founded under {{w|Sun Yat-sen}} in 1912 that ruled [[mainland China]] from 1928 to 1949, now one of three major parties in the [[Republic of China]] ([[Taiwan]]).
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|date=September 7, 1912
|title=The Passing of the Tungmenghui
|journal=North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette
|url=https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1912.09.07/
|location=Shanghai
|volume=CIV
|issue=2352
|oclc=311405954
|page=686
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1912.09.07/page/686/
|column=3
|text=It is generally believed that the creation of the '''Kuomintang''' will somewhat straighten out the political tangle in China caused by the multitude of parties. The '''Kuomintang''' holds itself out as the democratic party, and its support of the President will be tempered by the path his future actions take.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|url=https://archive.org/details/chinamissionyear07unknuoft/
|year=1916
|author=F. L. Pratt
|chapter=CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1915
|title=China Mission Year Book 1916
|location=[[Shanghai]]
|publisher=w:Christian Literature Society for China
|page=24
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/chinamissionyear07unknuoft/page/24/
|passage=The trend of events from the founding of the Republic to the unseating of the '''Kuomintang''' members of the National Assembly in November, 1913, however, confirmed the belief held in many quarters that republicanism was not a suitable system of government for the Chinese in their present stage of political development.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=1968
|first=Daniel George Edward
|last=Hall
|authorlink=D. G. E. Hall
|chapter=Burma
|title=w:Encyclopedia Britannica
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rt5MAQAAIAAJ
|volume=4
|LCCN=68-10064
|OCLC=1036882
|page=442
|column=2
|text=U Nu's government was Socialist with a program of nationalization. But it had to fight for survival against almost universal disorder complicated by a Communist rebellion, a Karen rising, which was far more serious, and, in 1950, the arrival from Yünnan of General Li Mi's '''Kuomintang''' division after its rout by the Chinese Communists.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1977|author=w:John Le Carré|title=The Honourable Schoolboy|page=238|publisher=Folio Society|year_published=2010
|passage=He drew lists of Party cadre members of both before and after forty-nine, and pored over the scant details of those entrusted with the takeover of big enterprises where technological know-how was required: in particular the Kiangnan shipyard, a massive affair from which the '''Kuomintang''' elements had repeatedly to be purged.}}
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-12-04_24_48/
|date=December 4, 1983
|title=6.7 Million Voters Select 71 Legislators
|journal=Free China Weekly
|volume=XXIV
|issue=48
|location=[[Taipei]]
|page=1
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-12-04_24_48/
|passage=The '''Kuomintang''' Party, after capturing 62 of the 71 seats in the Dec. 3 legislative elections, has retained control of the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan, the bastion of recovery, that it has held for the past 30 years.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|url=https://archive.org/details/reencountersinch00isaa/
|year=1985
|title=Re-encounters in China: Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule
|author=w:Harold R. Isaacs
|publisher=w:M. E. Sharpe
|ISBN=0-87332-289-4
|page=[https://archive.org/details/reencountersinch00isaa/page/6 6]
|passage=By 1927, these gangs had come to play a cardinal political role, serving as agents of the '''Kuomintang''' in dealing with unions, radicals, and other opponents of the regime.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=1992
|origdate=April 15, 1941
|author=[[w:Deng Xiaoping|Xiaoping Deng]]
|chapter=The Party and the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government
|title=Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping
|url=https://archive.org/details/selectedworksofd0000deng/
|location=[[Beijing]]
|publisher=w:Foreign Languages Press
|ISBN=7-119-01457-9
|OCLC=29034977
|OL=13010543M
|page=17
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/selectedworksofd0000deng/page/17/
|text=If we say that the Communist Parties in West European countries are tainted with some undesirable traditions of the social-democratic parties, the Chinese Communist Party is more or less tainted with the undesirable traditions of the '''Kuomintang'''. The concept of “ruling the country by the party”, held by some comrades, is a manifestation in our Party of an abominable tradition of the '''Kuomintang'''.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=2004
|author=Phil Macdonald
|title=National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan
|publisher=w:National Geographic Society
|ISBN=9780792265559
|OCLC=54962554
|page=203
|passage=Next door, you can't miss the '''Fushan Illuminated Wall,''' a huge sign with red Chinese characters on a white background declaring: "Sleep with one's sword ready." Its purpose was to brace the islands' '''Kuomintang''' troops and to warn off the Communist troops always watching from just across the waters.}}
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|date=March 27, 2023
|author=Chris Horton
|title=Taiwan’s Ex-President Heads to China in Historic and Closely Watched Visit
|journal=w:The New York Times
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327065820/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/world/asia/taiwan-china-ma-visit.html
|issn=0362-4331
|oclc=1645522
|section=Asia Pacific
|url2=https://archive.is/v7UWU
|text=In February, the newly elected mayor of Taipei, {{w|Chiang Wan-an}}, welcomed a delegation from the Shanghai branch of the Taiwan Affairs Office. {{w|Andrew Hsia}}, a '''Kuomintang''' vice chairman, went to China and met with {{w|Wang Huning}} and {{w|Song Tao (diplomat)|Song Tao}}, two key figures in Beijing’s Taiwan strategy.}}
#* {{seemoreCites|en}}

====Synonyms====
* {{l|en|Chungkuo Kuomintang}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|a nationalist political party in pre-Communist China, and contemporary Taiwan}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|國民黨|tr=gwok3 man4 dong2}}
*: Hokkien: {{t|nan-hbl|國民黨|tr=Kok-bîn-tóng}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|國民黨|tr=Guómíndǎng}}
* French: {{t+|fr|Kuomintang|?}}
* German: {{t|de|Kuomintang|f}}
* Hindi: {{t|hi|गुओमिंदांग}}
* Italian: {{t|it|Kuomintang|?}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|国民党|tr=こくみんとう, Kokumintō}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|Гоминдаң}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|^국민당(國民黨)}}
* Mongolian: {{t|mn|Гоминдан}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|Гоминьда́н|m}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|Kuomintang|?}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ก๊กมินตั๋ง}}
* Tibetan: {{t|bo|གོའོ་མིན་ཏང}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|گومىنداڭ}}
* Vietnamese: {{t|vi|Quốc dân Đảng}} ({{t|vi|國民黨}})
* Zhuang: {{t|za|Gozminzdangj}}
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===References===
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===Further reading===
* {{R:Collins English Dictionary}}
* {{R:GNV|Kuomintang, Guomindang}}
* {{R:Lexico|pos=pn}}
* {{R:OneLook}}
* {{R:TheFreeDictionary}}

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