Fung-wong may refer to four tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean. The name, contributed by
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
, refers to
Lantau Peak
Lantau Peak or Fung Wong Shan (literally "Fenghuang, Phoenix Mountain") is the second highest peak in Hong Kong and the highest point on Lantau Island, with a height of above sea level. Name origin
The mountain is actually made up of a pair o ...
(Phoenix Mountain), the highest point in Hong Kong's
Lantau Island
Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located West of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands ...
. The name is also the Cantonese pronunciation and romanization of the word for the
Chinese phoenix
''Fènghuáng'' (, ) are mythological birds found in Sinospheric mythology that reign over all other birds. The males were originally called ''fèng'' and the females ''huáng'', but such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and ...
(鳳凰, fènghuáng).
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Typhoon Fung-wong (2002)
The 2002 Pacific typhoon season was a slightly above average Pacific typhoon season, producing twenty-six named storms, fifteen becoming typhoons, and eight super typhoons. It was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation, in wh ...
(T0211, 15W, Kaka) – recurved out of the ocean
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Typhoon Fung-wong (2008)
Typhoon Fung-wong, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Igme, was a deadly typhoon in the 2008 Pacific typhoon season which made landfall on Taiwan and China. Typhoon Fung-wong reached peak intensity of a Category 2 typhoon on the Saffir-Si ...
(T0808, 09W, Igme) – struck Taiwan and China
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Tropical Storm Fung-wong (2014)
Tropical Storm Fung-wong, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Mario, was a relatively weak tropical cyclone which affected the northern Philippines, Taiwan and the Eastern China. The sixteenth named storm of the 2014 typhoon season, Fung- ...
(T1416, 16W, Mario) – struck Philippines, Taiwan and Eastern China
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Severe Tropical Storm Fung-wong (2019) (T1927, 28W, Sarah) – churned out of the ocean
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