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	岱	15 750
Tsing-ma	C诌�	15 127
Fo-lung	�s�	14 810
Dim-sum	I�	14 354
Sparrow	噶圃	13 662
Shui-sin	P�	13 463
Siu-lung	p缴�	13 131
Neon	O搴�	12 713
Sing-si	觐	12 524
Egret	�O�	12 296
Heung-pin	奚�	12 279
Hoi-wai	艽	11 717
Pui-pui	涝涝	11 595
Sheung-si	��	11 431
Red-bean	损屑	11 006
Stoneslab	休O�	10 940
Bak-lan	��	10 616
Sampan	Q朔�	10 474
Junk-boat	\|�	10 222
Treefrog	搀�	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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