Why is a typhoon called a typhoon?

Typhoon is a kind of natural disasters, which refers to tropical cyclones formed on the vast sea surface above 26 ℃ in the tropics or subtropics. The severity and frequency of disasters have attracted worldwide attention. When typhoons and tropical storms hit, they are often accompanied by strong winds, torrential rains, huge waves and storm surges, and sometimes cause tsunamis. Let's take a look at why typhoons are called typhoons.

Why is a typhoon called a typhoon?

1. The transliteration theory includes three kinds: one is evolved from the Cantonese "strong wind", the second is from the Minnan dialect "Fengtai", and the third is named after the character Taifeng Typhoon in the Greek epic "History of Theocracy" during the Dutch occupation of Taiwan.

2. the source says: Taiwan is located in the northward path of most typhoons in the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea, and many typhoons cross the Taiwan Strait into the mainland, so they are called typhoons. Therefore, "Typhoon" is a transliterated word, and typhoon in English is transliterated into English according to the pronunciation of Chinese Cantonese toifong, and then into Putonghua vocabulary.

What are the benefits of typhoons?

1. Typhoons bring abundant fresh water to people. The typhoon brought a lot of Rain Water to the coasts of China, the Sea of Japan, India, Southeast Asia and the southeastern United States.

2. Tropical and subtropical areas near the equator are exposed to the longest sunshine and are unbearably hot and dry. If there is no typhoon to disperse the heat in these areas, it will be hotter, the surface sand shortage will be more serious, and the cold zone will be colder and the temperate zone will disappear. China will not have a spring city like Kunming, nor will there be Guangzhou, which is evergreen all the year round. "Beidacang" and Inner Mongolia grasslands will no longer exist.

3. The typhoon can reach a maximum speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour. This huge energy can directly cause disaster to human beings, but it also relies on this huge energy flow to maintain the heat balance of the earth, so that human beings can live and work in peace and contentment.

4. Typhoons can also increase fishing production. Whenever a typhoon hits, it rolls up the nutrients at the bottom of the river and sea, and the number of baits increases, attracting schools of fish to gather near the surface of the water, and the catch increases naturally.

What is the harm of typhoon?

1. The gale weather brought by typhoon is one of the main harms of typhoon, especially the gale near the center of typhoon is very powerful. The following paragraph will give us a visual concept to understand the harm of strong winds. It is difficult to walk with umbrellas at level 6, it is inconvenient for level 7 to walk in the wind, branches are broken at level 8, roof tiles are at level 9, trees are uprooted at level 10, falling objects from height, dilapidated buildings collapse and so on are all accidents that easily occur in typhoon days.

2. Typhoon is often accompanied by rainstorm, even heavy rainstorm or torrential rain. Torrential rain is easy to cause floods, resulting in villages, houses, ships, bridges, amusement facilities and other flooded, or even washed away, resulting in loss of life and property. Torrential rain may cause water conservancy project accident and serious dangerous situation. Torrential rain may also cause landslides, debris flows and other geological disasters, resulting in casualties.

3. Storm surge is easy to destroy seawall dike, culvert gate and wharf. Bank revetment and other facilities can cause seawalls to break, sea water to pour back, and may even directly wash away nearby people, resulting in casualties.

4. Typhoons often bring strong winds and torrential rain when passing through, causing huge waves on the sea and seriously threatening the safety of navigation. The storm flood caused by typhoon landfall may destroy crops and various building facilities, resulting in huge losses of people's lives and property.