Alien

Alternative form of Alian.

Proper noun

  1. Alternative form of Alian.
    • Premier Chiang Ching-kuo traveled to Alien village in Kaohsiung county May 23 to inspect the Chung-chou No. 3 oilwell prospect of Chinese Petroleum Corporation. - 1977, 光華畫報, volume 2, numbers 2-12, →OCLC, page 25:
    • A woman holds up two bowls containing eggs at a press conference in Taipei yesterday. The left contains a regular egg, while the other bowl is an SGS-certified egg from Taiwan’s first company to use humanely raised...
    • Res Matilin comes from Sandi Village, a Paiwan community in Pingtung County. Jimmy comes from Alien Township, Kaohsiung City and has Minnan ethnicity. “I decided to come back because I really missed home. I had been...

Origin

Borrowed from Mandarin 阿蓮 (Ālián) Wade–Giles romanization: A¹-lien².