taikonaut

Etymology
From , modelled after , , , etc. The term was coined on 19 May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih  from Malaysia, who used it first in newsgroups. Almost simultaneously, Chen Lan coined it for use in the Western media.

Noun

 * 1) A person who travels in space for the Chinese space program; a Chinese astronaut.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَايْكُونَات
 * Basque:
 * Catalan: taikonauta
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 太空人
 * Hokkien: 太空人
 * Mandarin:, , , 宇宙航行員, 太空飛行員
 * Esperanto: tajkonaŭto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ταϊκοναύτης
 * Hungarian: tajkonauta
 * Japanese: タイコノート
 * Korean: 타이코놋
 * Navajo: wótááhgóó ałnááʼáłtʼahí
 * Polish:
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