tagyaw Sense 1 noun English. Very dark, shiny china rice-wine jar, ca. 64 cm. high with a mouth ca. 15 cm. wide. Example sentence: Subanen. Ki tagyaw, ginis bandi, gembaba'i palasen, maitem lamug gempula, nda'idun ig ledawan dun mamak. English. A tagyaw is one variety of jar, short, black and red, with no pictures of snakes on it. Sense 2 English. A particular value used in computing bride wealth. c.f. balasi' Generic. bandi