The name Choi-wan (彩雲;

Jyutping The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme, also known as Jyutping, is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed in 1993 by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK). The name ''Jyutping'' (itself the Jyutping ro ...

: ''coi² wan⁴'', ͡sʰɔːy̯³⁵ wɐn²¹ has been used to name four

tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...

s in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The name was contributed by Hong Kong, and means "colourful cloud" in

Cantonese Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...

. It also refers to

Choi Wan Estate Choi Wan Estate () is a public housing estate in Ngau Chi Wan, Wong Tai Sin District, Kowloon, Hong Kong, located between Ngau Chi Wan Village and Jordan Valley and the foot of Fei Ngo Shan. The estate is divided into Choi Wan (I) Estate () and ...

, a public estate in Hong Kong. *

Typhoon Choi-wan (2003) The 2003 Pacific typhoon season was a below average yearlong period of tropical cyclogenesis exhibiting the development of 45 tropical depressions, of which 21 became named storms; of those, 14 became typhoons. Though every month with the ex ...

(T0315, 16W, Roskas) – paralleled the coast of Japan. *

Typhoon Choi-wan (2009) Typhoon Choi-wan was a powerful typhoon that became the first Category 5-equivalent super typhoon to form during the 2009 Pacific typhoon season. Forming on September 11, 2009, about to the east of Guam, the initial disturbance rapidly organized ...

(T0914, 15W) – moved through the Northern Mariana Islands as a Category 5 super typhoon. *

Severe Tropical Storm Choi-wan (2015) The 2015 Pacific typhoon season was a slightly above average season that produced twenty-seven tropical storms (including two that crossed over from the Eastern/Central Pacific), eighteen typhoons, and nine super typhoons. The season ran throug ...

(T1523, 23W) – a very large storm that churned in the open ocean. *

Tropical Storm Choi-wan (2021) Tropical Storm Choi-wan, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Dante, was a tropical storm which caused moderate flooding and damage in the Philippines and also affected Taiwan in late May and early June 2021. The third named storm of the 2 ...

(T2103, 04W, Dante) - crossed the Philippines and later affected Taiwan.

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