Tai Po

English

Alternative forms

• Taipo

Etymology

From Cantonese 大埔 (daai⁶ bou³).

Proper noun

Tai Po

1. An area and town in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • 2023 February 26, Joyce Lau, “Ex-husband’s relatives charged in Hong Kong model’s slaying”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 February 2023, Asia‎^[2]:

     On Friday, police found body parts in an apartment near Tai Po, in Hong Kong’s outlying New Territories.

2. A district of Hong Kong.
   • 2019 February 12, Charles Homans, “Hong Kong, Crossroads of the Criminal Wildlife Trade”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-12‎^[4]:

     It was after dark on a Tuesday evening in December 2017 when the vans pulled onto Island House Lane, a placid side street of residential complexes and community garden plots in the suburban Tai Po district. […]
     The pangolin’s value has increased with its rarity — the shipment seized in Tai Po had a street value of around $300,000.

   • 2019 October 19, Holmes Chan, “19-year-old stabbed in neck and stomach at Tai Po ‘Lennon Wall’ as assailant declares Hong Kong is ‘part of China’”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[5], archived from the original on 23 September 2021, Hong Kong:

     A 19-year-old was left seriously wounded after being attacked near the “Lennon Wall” pro-democracy message board in Tai Po on Saturday afternoon. […]
     Police said the case was classified as wounding, and was under investigation by the District Investigation Team of Tai Po District.

3. A rural committee in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大埔 (daai⁶ bou³)

district of Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大埔區／大埔区 (daai⁶ bou³ keoi¹)

rural committee

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大埔鄉事委員會／大埔乡事委员会 (daai⁶ bou³ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui^6-2)

Further reading

• Tai Po, Taipo at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• -topia, patio, topia