167 T T B tael taikonaut taipan Tai Po tai-tai tai-tai lunch tam Tam Kung Festival tang yuan tea money ten thousand steps thousand-year egg three-legged stool tiffin tin fong wife Tin Hau Tin Hau Festival tin kau tofu Tolo Harbour tong tong fai tong gau tong lau tong sui tong yuen triad Tsim Sha Tsui tsin Tsing Yi (Island) tso Tsuen Wan Tuen Mun Tuen Ng turnip turnip cake turtle’s egg typhoon signal number 168 T tael /teɪl/ n. Source language: Malay. Definition: 1/16 of a catty. Text example: “As many of these dried food delicacies are very expensive, they are customarily priced in unit of tael. But the shops would display or show the prices in such a way that creates theimpressionthepricesareforacatty.” See: catty. taikonaut /taɪkəʊnɔ:t/ n. Source languages: Mandarin (太空人), Greek. Definition: a Chinese astronaut/cosmonaut. Text example: “The Chief Executive, Mr Tung Chee Hwa, and China’s first taikonaut, Mr Yang Liwei, officiated at the opening ceremony of the ‘Exhibition on China’s First Manned Space Mission’ at the Hong Kong Science Museum.” taipan /taɪpan/ n. Source language: Cantonese (大班). Definition: the head of a large powerful business (largely archaic). Text example: “It had been used as the Russian Consul’s office and subsequently the residence of Augustine Herd & Co.’s taipans.” Note: Currently mostly used for heads of longestablished companies. tael ▸ [54.210.126.232] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 16:31 GMT) 169 T Tai Po /taɪ pəʊ/ n. Source language: Cantonese (大埔). Definition: a town and district in the eastern New Territories adjacent to Tolo Harbour; originally a market town. tai-tai /taɪ taɪ/ n. Source language: Cantonese (太太). Definition: the idle wife of a rich man. Text example: “Did you hear that tai-tai Blimpy Li went to the beach in Florida and almost died of heat stroke? Fortunately the doctor got to her in time and opened her mink coat.” tai-tai lunch fixed expression. Definition: a social gathering (for lunch) of tai-tais. Text example: “Her description in November 1831 of a ‘lady party,’ which aptly equates with a ‘tai-tai lunch’ in Hong Kong today,isoneofthemostappealing.” tam /dam/ n. Source language: Cantonese (擔). Definition: 100 catties or 1 picul (uncommon). Text example: 1 picul (tam) = 100 catties. (largely archaic) See: catty. ▸ tam 170 T Tam Kung Festival /tam kuŋ festivəl/ n. Source languages: Cantonese (譚公誕), English. Definition: a non-statutory holiday to honor the birthday of a god of the sea, on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar. Text example: “In 1984 more than forty flags bearing the distinctive Wo Shing Wo triad society logo were erected along Nathan Road—the main thoroughfare on the Kowloon peninsula—to draw attention to a dinner in a nearby restaurant, purportedly being held in celebration of the Tam Kung festival.” tang yuan (also tong yuen) /tɔŋ ju:n/ n. Source language: Cantonese (湯圓). Definition: a sweet glutinous rice flour ball, often stuffed with peanut, sugar, red bean or sesame. It is traditionally eaten during the Lantern Festival. Text example: 1 “People eat Yuan Xiao or Tang Yuan which are balls of glutinous rice, sometimes rolled around a filling of sesame, peanuts, vegetables or meat. Tang Yuan are often cooked in red bean or other kinds of sweet soup. The round shape symbolizes wholeness and unity.” 2 “‘Tong yuens’ (glutinous rice dumplings) bring together the union of a happy and healthy family.” tea money idiomatic expression. Definition: a euphemism for a corrupt payment. Text example: “He had to pay a man $30 as tea money (swindled) to get thelicenseforhim.” Tam Kung Festival ▸ [54.210.126.232] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 16:31 GMT) 171 T Underlying conceptualization: A BRIBE IS (MONEY FOR) A DRINK [TARGET DOMAIN ∆ CORRUPTION] [SOURCE DOMAIN ∆ FOOD]. ten thousand steps fixed expression. Definition: physical exercise for health, a training program. Text example: “WalkTenThousand Steps for Health programme.” thousand-year egg n. See: century egg. three-legged stool idiomatic expression. Definition: a political or economic situation dependent on three main aspects. Text example: “The most common diagnosis is that China’s economy is ‘unbalanced.’ The three-legged stool of its GDP leans too much on exports and investment, and too little on consumption. All those exports and investments may be helping fast growth today, the argument goes, but they can’tbereliedonfortomorrow.” tiffin /tifin/ n. Source language: Indian English. Definition: lunch. Text example: “In some instances petty quarrels were the...