In the eye of the typhoon - “韦帕”台风袭上海

We went to 苏州 on Tuesday and got really wet. The umbrealla we bought for 10 yuan did not really do a good job.

苏州 really will always be "the water town" now in my memory.

Apparently it landed 登陆 (dēnglù) in 浙江 (Zhèjiāng) and turned into a tropical storm 热带风暴 (rèdàifēngbào) , with 场 (cháng) as measure word 量词 (liàngcí)

It rained heavily yesterday, but today is fine. It seems the typhoon mostly missed the city center.

Hi,

Yes, you can use both:

次 (cì)

场 (chǎng )

as the measure words for 台风 (táifēng)

For 台风 you can use 次. One way to check usage of measure words is Google, which can be a valuable empirical linguistic research tool. Based on Google, there are some occurrences of 场 but it seems to be rarer.

Hope all is well friends @ CPOD. Stay safe.

How about measure words for these weather terms? I took a stab at 场 for 台风 but have no idea if that's right. How do you look up measure words? My electronic dictionary rarely includes them in a definition.

More on the vocab front:

飓风 (jùfēng) hurricane

气旋 (qìxuán) cyclone

洪水 (hóngshuǐ) flood

暴雨 (bàoyǔ) torrential rain

I guess the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane is mostly just a matter of geography, in both languages?

All this storm-related vocabulary should be incorporated into a lesson somehow. Caught in the typhoon, Lili and Liu Xiang cling to the sides of his capsized yacht, commenting on the rotten weather...

on the vocab front :

台风 (táifēng, sound familiar?) typhoon

台风眼 （táifēng yǎn) the eye of the typhoon， same as

台风中心 （táifēng zhōngxīn)

暴风圈 （bàofēngquān）area within the storm

超强 （chāoqiáng）extremely strong

"...伤害我们的上海朋友..." Cool, a mandarin tongue twister..."twister"..."typhoon"....get it? Hahaha.

chingrisherman-

What do you mean by 'spell'? If you mean literally spell, as in English letters, the pinyin is Shanghai. The tones are fourth then third, so: Shang4hai3. If you mean what characters - it's the city 'on the ocean', I guess from the point of view of the rest of the Yangtze anyway:

上海，上- up, above, on and 海-sea, big lake, ocean.

Or there is also 伤害 shang1hai4: a verb, to injure or harm. Similar to the other use of the word SHanghai in English: "She's been Shanghai'd!"

希望这场台风不会伤害我们的上海朋友们，特别是我们的C-Pod老师们。

尚亥人！(what is the actual spelling of shanghai in chinese?)

Stay safe all you Shanghai de ren !. And maybe we can have a lesson on your typhoon once we know you have all kept your hair on !

hi, not sure if it's landed yet, or if it will. but i do know i had to wade through ankle deep streets outside my place on my way home today!

thanks for thinking of us! we feel so loved :) nothing like a little typhoon to keep life interesting here... (as if it weren't lively enough already!)...