Kuomintang

English

Alternative forms

• Komintang
• (from pinyin) Guomindang

Etymology

From Wade-Giles romanization of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 國民黨／国民党 (Kuo²-min²-tang³, “Nationalist Party”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːəʊmɪnˈtaŋ/

Proper noun

Kuomintang

1. (historical) A nationalist political party in pre-Communist China that ruled China from 1928 until the Communists overthrew it in 1949, and was subsequently the major administrative party of Taiwan.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 238:

     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.

   Synonym: KMT

Translations

a nationalist political party in pre-Communist China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 國民黨／国民党 (zh) (Guómíndǎng), 国民党 (zh) (Guómíndǎng)

• French: Kuomintang
• German: Kuomintang
• Hindi: गुओमिंदांग (guomindāṅg)
• Italian: Kuomintang
• Japanese: 国民党 (ja) (こくみんとう, Kokumintō)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 국민당 (Gungmindang)
• Mongolian: Гоминдан (Gomindan)
• Russian: Гоминьда́н (ru) m (Gominʹdán)
• Spanish: Kuomintang
• Thai: ก๊กมินตั๋ง (th)
• Tibetan: གོའོ་མིན་ཏང (go'o min tang)
• Uyghur: گومىنداڭ (gomindang)
• Vietnamese: Quốc dân Đảng
• Zhuang: Gozminzdangj