Tai Po

English

Alternative forms
  • Taipo

Etymology

From Cantonese 大埔 (daai6 bou3).

Proper noun

Tai Po

  1. An area and town in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
  2. A district of Hong Kong.
    • 2019 February 12, Homans, Charles, “Hong Kong, Crossroads of the Criminal Wildlife Trade”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-12‎:
      It was after dark on a Tuesday evening in December 2017 when the vans pulled onto Island House Lane, a placid side street of residential complexes and community garden plots in the suburban Tai Po district. […]
      The pangolin’s value has increased with its rarity — the shipment seized in Tai Po had a street value of around $300,000.

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