Scientific knowledge of the origin of typhoon

The scientific knowledge about the origin of typhoon is as follows:

There are often many weak tropical eddies on the surface of tropical oceans, which we call "embryos" of typhoons, because typhoons always develop from such weak tropical eddies. Through meteorological satellites, it is found that only about 10% of a large number of tropical eddies on the ocean surface can develop into typhoons.

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The origin of the word typhoon: In 2006, the second issue of Technical Terminology published Wang Cunzhong's article "The Origin of Typhoon Terminology and Its Naming Principles".

This paper discusses the historical evolution of the word typhoon. The author believes that in ancient times, typhoons were called hurricanes, and it was not until the late Ming and early Qing dynasties that "hurricanes" (1956) were used. Hurricanes were simplified to the name of typhoons, and the meaning of hurricanes became a general term for cold wave gale or non-typhoon gale. There are two theories about the origin of typhoon. The first is the theory of tone sandhi.

Including three kinds: one is evolved from Cantonese "gale"; Second, it evolved from the Minnan dialect "Fengtai"; Third, during the Dutch occupation of Taiwan Province Province, it was named after Typhoon Taifeng, a character in the Greek theocracy epic. The second category is "origin theory", that is, naming a typhoon according to its origin.

Because Taiwan Province Province is located in the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea, most typhoons enter the mainland through the Taiwan Province Strait. "Typhoon" is a transliteration word. Typhoon in English is transliterated into English according to the Cantonese pronunciation of Chinese, and then enters the vocabulary of Mandarin.

Typhoon, called Typhoon in English, called tufan in Greek and Arabic, sounds very similar to Chinese, and both Arabic and English mean Fengshen.

The word typhoon comes from Tifeng, the son of Gaia, the mother of the earth, in Greek mythology. It is a monster with a hundred faucets. It is said that this monster's child is a terrible wind. Later, this word was introduced to China and merged with typhoon in Cantonese to become the word typhoon.

The typhoon we are talking about is actually a strong tropical gas cyclone.

Typhoon and hurricane are both a kind of wind, but they happen in different places and have different names. They are called typhoons in the western North Pacific and the west of international date, including the South China Sea and the East China Sea of China, while tropical gas cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean or the eastern North Pacific are called hurricanes, which means hurricanes in the United States, typhoons in the Philippines, China and Japan, and cyclones in the southern hemisphere.