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TW · TWN

Taiwan languages and locale codes

Official or primary languages with practical BCP 47 locale recommendations.

Available locales: zh-TW, nan-Hant-TW, hak-Hant-TW

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BCP 47

Languages and locale codes

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Taiwan languages and locales
LanguageCodeRecommended localeStatus
ChineseOfficial
Min Nan ChineseOfficial
Hakka ChineseOfficial

Use a Taiwan locale in a product

When content is written in Chinese, use the lang tag below to describe the text. The Intl locale selects regional formatting. This is one example from the table, not a claim about every visitor's language preference.

Example
<html lang="zh-Hant">
new Intl.NumberFormat("zh-TW").format(1234567.89);

Compare number and date formatting

These examples use 1234567.89 and the fixed instant 2026-01-15T13:45:00Z, with dates displayed in UTC. Intl computes the results when this site is built; your browser and locale-data version may differ. Unsupported tags are identified instead of showing default-language output.

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Intl formatting examples (UTC)
LocaleNumberDateCurrency
zh-TW1,234,567.892026年1月15日
TWD: $1,234.50
nan-Hant-TWUnsupported in this buildUnsupported in this build
TWD: Unsupported in this build
hak-Hant-TWUnsupported in this buildUnsupported in this build
TWD: Unsupported in this build

Currency examples use the fixed value 1234.5. The SIX snapshot is as of 2026-09-26; territory mappings use CLDR 49. Specify each currency explicitly; formatting is not an exchange rate.

Example
new Intl.NumberFormat("zh-TW", { style: "currency", currency: "TWD" }).format(1234.5);

Before adopting a tag, run Intl.NumberFormat.supportedLocalesOf() and Intl.DateTimeFormat.supportedLocalesOf() in your target runtime. A locale does not select a time zone or translate interface text; specify currency explicitly when formatting money.

Intl locale support reference (MDN)

Data provenance

Sources

Data snapshot: 2026-11-03