颱風

See also: 台風 and 台风

Chinese

typhoon
wind; news; style
wind; news; style; custom; manner
 
trad. (颱風/台風*) /
simp. (台风*)
anagram 風颱风台

Etymology

Debated. Various theories include:

  • Compound of (“violent wind”) and (“wind”). The former is a word attested from the eighteenth century.
  • Compound of (“Taiwan”) and (“wind”), as most typhoons affecting the southeastern coast of China appear to have originated from the direction of Taiwan.
  • Phono-semantic matching of English typhoon, in turn from southern Chinese (Cantonese or Hakka) 大風 (“windstorm”).

For more on the historical records of typhoons in China, see Louie and Liu (2003).

Pronunciation


Noun

颱風

  1. typhoon (Classifier: m c;  m c)

Usage notes

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • 中度颱風 / 中度台风
  • 刮颱風 / 刮台风
  • 海上颱風警報 / 海上台风警报
  • 納莉颱風 / 纳莉台风
  • 超級颱風 / 超级台风
  • 輕度颱風 / 轻度台风
  • 颱風尾 / 台风尾
  • 颱風眼 / 台风眼
  • 颱風草 / 台风草
  • 颱風警報 / 台风警报

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (颱風):
  • Korean: 태풍(颱風) (Taepung)
  • Indonesian: taifun
  • See also

    References

    • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “15 台风”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 292.

    Japanese

    Kanji in this term
    たい
    Hyōgai
    ふう
    Grade: 2
    on'yomi
    For pronunciation and definitions of 颱風 – see the following entry.
    台風たいふう
    [noun] (meteorology, weather) a tropical storm, with wind speeds over 34 knots (17 m/s).
    [noun] (generally) a storm; a cyclone; a hurricane; willy willy
    (This term, 颱風, is an alternative spelling (dated) of the above term.)

    Korean

    Hanja in this term

    Noun

    颱風 • (taepung) (hangeul 태풍)

    1. hanja form? of 태풍 (typhoon)