Asian vs Tai

Asian and Tai both are nouns.

Asian and Tai both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
Tai	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Tai is a hyponym of Asian; that is, Tai is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Asian:

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
Tai: a native or inhabitant of Thailand

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, Eurasian, Afghan, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, Chinese, East Indian, Malay, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Iranian, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Japanese, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Lao, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	Tai (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages
	a native or inhabitant of Thailand

Asian (adjective)	Tai (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture	of or relating to Thailand
	of or relating to the languages of the Thai people
	of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people

Difference between Asian and Tai

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