What is the Chinese word tai fung mean?

"Tai fung" is the Cantonese pronunciation of the Chinese word 颱風, which means typhoon.

The standard Mandarin pronunciation is tài fēng.

The word itself is a combination of two characters:

* 颱 (tái), meaning typhoon or hurricane.

* 風 (fēng), meaning wind.

Therefore, "tài fēng" literally translates to "typhoon wind".