Tai Tam

English

Alternative forms

• (dated) Tytam

Etymology

From Cantonese 大潭 (daai⁶ taam⁴).

Proper noun

Tai Tam

1. An area in Southern district, Hong Kong.
   • 2015 February 8, Hazel Parry, “ID tag found in Tai Tam sparks search for family of wartime British sailor”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-08-15, Hong Kong‎^[2]:

     Local historians have launched a search for the family of a British sailor who fought to defend Hong Kong from the Japanese during the second world war, after his Royal Navy ID tag was found on a mountainside in Tai Tam.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “Living the Hong Kong Dream”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-28, Paid Post‎^[4]:

     “BECAUSE HONG KONG IS INCREDIBLY SAFE and has so much to offer in terms of everything from sports to culture, children start doing very sophisticated things from a young age,” says Chipman, who lives in the Southern district of Tai Tam and sent his children to the Hong Kong International School. “Education is very seriously emphasized and valued in Hong Kong.”

2. A bay of Hong Kong Island in Tai Tam, Southern district, Hong Kong.

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大潭 (daai⁶ taam⁴)

Further reading

• Tai Tam, Tytam at Google Ngram Viewer