po toiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Cantonese 蒲台 (pou toi).

固有名詞

Po Toi

1. An island group of Islands district, Hong Kong.
2. An island of Po Toi, Islands district, Hong Kong.
   • 1954 April 5, “Sequel To Raid On Aberdeen Fishing Junk”, in China Mail‎, number 35783, →OCLC, page 10, column 6:

     Mr Blair-Kerr went on to say that the place where the offence occurred was just off Brick Hill, or Wong Chuk Hang, near Aberdeen. The complainant, Chan For-tai, would give evidence that he, his wife, mother and two brothers, set off in their fishing junk about 2 a.m., on January 5 to fish. They sailed south from Aberdeen, then eastwards towards Wong Chuk Hang, and were heading for an island further south, Po Toi.

   • 2014 May 5, Alice Woodhouse, “Eleven crew missing after ships collide off Hong Kong”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 30 November 2024:

     The cargo ship Zhong Xing 2 sank after the collision with the 300-m- (984-ft-) long Marshall Islands-registered MOL Motivator about two nautical miles southwest of Po Toi Island, a spokeswoman of the Hong Kong Maritime Department said.

   • 2014 May 5, Gerry Mullany, Keith Bradsher, “11 Missing After Cargo Ships Collide Near Hong Kong”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2014, Asia Pacific‎:

     One person was rescued following the 3 a.m. accident about three miles off Po Toi Island, which is just southeast of Hong Kong Island in the South China Sea.

   • 2017, Mark Greaney, Gunmetal Gray‎, Penguin Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:

     They called him three days ago from a bar in Po Toi. It is a small island south of central Hong Kong.

Further reading

• “Po Toi”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.