Results of online voting for tropical cyclone names

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The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) announced today (January 17) that the public online voting stage of the Tropical Cyclone Name Collection Activity organised by the HKO has been successfully concluded. The activity received impressive response from the public and attracted over 20 000 votes. The following 20 tropical cyclone names with the highest numbers of votes have been selected from the 40 shortlisted suitable names with Hong Kong characteristics. They will be incorporated into the reserve list of tropical cyclone names of Hong Kong, China. The 20 names with the highest numbers of votes are as follows:

Name	Name in Chinese	Votes
Milktea	奶茶	15 750
Tsing-ma	青马	15 127
Fo-lung	火龙	14 810
Dim-sum	点心	14 354
Sparrow	麻雀	13 662
Shui-sin	水仙	13 463
Siu-lung	小龙	13 131
Neon	霓虹	12 713
Sing-si	醒狮	12 524
Egret	白鹭	12 296
Heung-pin	香片	12 279
Hoi-wai	海威	11 717
Pui-pui	贝贝	11 595
Sheung-si	相思	11 431
Red-bean	红豆	11 006
Stoneslab	石板	10 940
Bak-lan	白兰	10 616
Sampan	舢舨	10 474
Junk-boat	帆船	10 222
Treefrog	树蛙	10 148

The meanings of these 20 tropical cyclone names are listed on the Tropical Cyclone Name Collection Activity webpage. Winners will be notified via email regarding souvenir collection within January.

Ends/Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Issued at HKT 15:00

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