After the First Sino-Japanese War, due to military defeat to the Japanese, the Qing dynasty ceded Taiwan to Japan, causing contact with the Hokkien-speaking regions of mainland China to stop. During Japanese rule, Japanese became an official language in Taiwan, and Taiwanese began to absorb large number of Japanese loanwords into its language. Examples of such loanwords (some which had in turn been borrowed from English) include "piān-só͘" from , "phêng" from (see also Taiwanese units of measurement), "ga-suh" from , "o͘-tó͘-bái" from . All of these caused Taiwanese to deviate from Hokkien used elsewhere.