cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shittification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitification
Etymology: From shit + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: I don't use reverb, I'd rather hear my guitar & amp ringing than a spring reverb or a di-di-di-digital shitification of my guitar.
ref: 2001 July 11, PMG, “pro/blues junior”, in alt.guitar.amps (Usenet):
text: you call that "evolution"........i call that the shitification of radio today.
ref: 2003 June 28, gaffo, “Opinion on corporate radio - NY Times”, in alt.radio.broadcasting (Usenet):
text: The crazy-ass robot queen who ran this station tried hard to make gravity stable when she geosynched—he knew she tried—but if there was one thing he'd learned in the years since continental unification and the general shitification of things down on the surface, it was that stability of any kind was transient. The best course was to close your eyes, clamp your teeth, and wait for the ache to pass.
ref: 2017, Vivian Jackson, Perfect Gravity, Naperville, I.L.: Sourcebooks Casablanca, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
text: The exponential rate of internet shittification
ref: 2022 December 6, Nicole Hemsoth Prickett, “You get the internet you deserve”, in The Register, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2023:
text: I know I’m getting old and this might be perceived by the youngsters as a get-off-my-lawn moment, but I am increasingly using the phrase the shittification of everything.
ref: [2022 December 16, Tim Bousquet, “The Examiner brings RESULTS”, in Halifax Examiner, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023:
antonyms: word: goodification
glosses: The process of shittifying or becoming shitty.
Derived terms: enshittification
Related terms: shittiness
shitification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shittification.
Conan-Doylish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Conan-Doylish
form: most Conan-Doylish
Senses: examples: text: A new romance, full of adventure and replete with wonderful “Conan-Doylish” strategy, is in our hands.
ref: 1895 November 23, “Among the New Books”, in Portage Daily Register, volume VIII, number 224, Portage, Wis., front page, column 2:
text: I knew the book, and the part where his finger kept the place, for I have the habit of noting details as I go about the world—a sort of Sherlock Holmesy, Conan-Doylish gift, or trick, inherited doubtless from some Calvinistic forbear, I expect.
ref: 1908, Hume Nisbet, The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum, London: De La Roche, […], page 58:
text: Conan-Doylish ability characterizes this narration, which ends on a note of mellow, pre-eminently mature, human wisdom.
ref: 1951 autumn, Elio Gianturco, “Mario Soldati. A cena col Commendatore. […]”, in Books Abroad: An International Literary Quarterly, volume 25, number 4, Norman, Okla.: The University of Oklahoma Press, page 383, column 2:
text: Captain Chandler and Wynee Whiteford provide entertaining variants of the ‘time machine’ genre, with traditional Wellsian or Conan-Doylish eccentrics; […]
ref: 1983, Australian Book Review, page 3:
text: […] Anna Katharine Green invented Ebenezer Gryce, who comes somewhere between the Dickensian-Collinsian detective-in-a-story and the Conan-Doylish detective-in-a-detective-story.
ref: 1994, J.K. Van Dover, You Know My Method: The Science of the Detective, Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, →ISBN, pages 50–51:
glosses: Alternative form of Conan Doylish.
God be with you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Doublet of goodbye.
Senses: glosses: goodbye
To Kwa Wan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: To Ka Wan
Etymology: From Cantonese 土瓜灣 (tou² gwaa¹ waan¹⁻⁴).
Senses: examples: text: To Kwa Wan is an old area with most buildings constructed decades ago. Apart from blocks of flats, the area is criss-crossed by water pipes and gas pipes; the consequence if they were affected would be dire. Four gas pipes in the area have been affected by subsidence. A gas leak could cause an explosion just like four years ago in Taiwan. As a To Kwa Wan resident, I am concerned.
ref: 2018 August 14, “Hong Kong MTR must come clean on safety risks to assure To Kwa Wan residents”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023, Letters:
text: The veteran 1a Space, in a former slaughterhouse in the To Kwa Wan area, organizes shows, residencies and a mentorship program for art critics, and is starting a performance festival.
ref: 2021 May 21, Andrew Russeth, “Expansive Thinking Sustains Hong Kong’s Independent Galleries”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 May 2021:
text: She inhabited an entirely different world than the one known to expats, starting out cloistered in a working-class area called To Kwa Wan on the Kowloon side of the harbor, where, she recalls, “I don’t recall ever running into a single white person.”
ref: 2022 February 11, Keith Richburg, “From a local and an expat, two stories of Hong Kong — and similar worries”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Feburary 2022, Outlook:
text: Hong Kong’s urban renewal body has announced plans for a HK$1 billion redevelopment in To Kwa Wan affecting 180 households and 20 stores.
ref: 2024 August 9, James Lee, “Hong Kong redevelopment body announces HK$1 billion To Kwa Wan redevelopment project”, in Hong Kong Free Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2024, Hong Kong:
glosses: An area of Kowloon City district, Hong Kong.
Kowloon Tsai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 九龍仔 /九龙仔 (gau² lung⁴ zai²).
Senses: examples: text: The So Uk people were said to be related to the So families of Kowloon Tsai, which may explain why they alone among the Cheung Sha Wan villages were involved.
ref: 1983, James Hayes, “The Cheung Sha Wan Villages”, in The Rural Communities of Hong Kong: Studies and Themes, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:
text: Yonghua was founded in 1947 by Li Zuyong with assistance from Zhang Shankun to make Mandarin films in Hong Kong and was its first large-scale private enterprise film company; after creative differences about running the company, Zhang left in 1948; that same year, the company organized an artistic committee. The studio, first located at Kowloon Tsai, was managed by Lu Yuanliang, and was the largest and most modernized, state-of-the-art, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
ref: 2007, Lisa Odham Stokes, “Yonghua Film Company”, in Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 536:
text: Yau Yat Chuen’s stylish villas overlooked the shacks of Tai Hang Tung; to the east, a squatter camp in Kowloon Tsai was described as “intolerable” by British Labour Party MPs who visited in 1969. Shanty towns were prone to fire and both Kowloon Tsai and Tai Hang Tung eventually burned to the ground, their residents given shelter in resettlement estates.
ref: 2018 November 5, Christopher DeWolf, “Kowloon Tong history: Hong Kong’s original garden city and its unusual path”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2018, Travel & Leisure:
text: When the Hong Kong government developed the then-barren area of Kowloon Tsai into a residential area in the early 1950s, the streets were also named after English counties, such as Oxford Road (牛津道), Cambridge Road (劍橋道), and Durham Road (對衡道).
ref: 2023 August 27, Diana Pang, “Foreign Influence Part 3: Around the world in a day with Hong Kong’s street names”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2023, Hong Kong:
glosses: An area of Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: word: Kau Lung Tsai
word: small Kowloon
Lee Garden Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately named after Hong Kong businessman Lee Hysan (利希慎) (1879-1928).
Senses: examples: text: Lee Hysan, a wealthy opium trader bought a piece of land on a hill (later known as the Lee Garden Hill) in the early 20s to be used for his business.
ref: 1993 July 3, Kevin Kwong, “The party's over for the friends of heartbreak hotel”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2023:
text: Early this century his grandfather — the famous Lee Hysan bought the entire hill which later became known as the Lee Garden Hill and established a base for the family in Hong Kong.
ref: 1997, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese University Bulletin:
text: The Mitsukoshi Department Store in Hennessy Centre, on the area of levelled Lee Garden Hill, 2006. The building was later rebuilt into Hysan Place.
ref: 2019 July 18, 鄭寶鴻, 香港歷史考察之旅：港島區 (overall work in Chinese), 商務印書館(香港)有限公司, →ISBN, page 189:
text: The Foolish Old Man's Hut Poetry Club, later known as North Hill Poetry Club, was established by Mok Hok-ming (莫鶴鳴) and Choi Jit-fu (蔡哲夫) at the residence of a deputy manager on Lee Garden Hill borrowed from Lee Hy-san (利希慎); it was disbanded in 1925.
ref: 2022 June 30, Hong Kong Chronicles Institute, Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview & Chronology, 聯合電子出版有限公司（代理）, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: A hill in Causeway Bay, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
wikipedia: zh:利希慎
Synonyms: East Point Hill
Mount Butler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: The first reached its objective but, attacked by superior numbers, was forced back next morning. The second found that the enemy was already holding Mount Butler and withdrew under heavy fire; the third held the road junction throughout the night despite heavy fire from Jardines Lookout.
ref: 1957, Stanley Woodburn Kirby, The War Against Japan: The loss of Singapore, page 131:
text: The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.
ref: 2014, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, “The Fall of Hong Kong, December 1941”, in Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:
text: Responding to more orders from Maltby, who already seems to have been quite out of touch with reality, at about 0230 hours on the 19th Colonel Sutcliffe sent his A Company, under Major A.B. Gresham, to try and re-take the Lookout and make another attempt on Mount Butler.
ref: 2016, Brereton Greenhous, "C" Force to Hong Kong: A Canadian Catastrophe, Dundurn, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:
text: A typical day for her begins at 4:30 a.m., when she slips out of her employer’s apartment for a “sunrise jog,” a five-mile round-trip run to the summit of nearby Mount Butler, a 1,430-foot peak.
ref: 2019 May 25, Mary Hui, “‘Not Just a Maid’: The Ultra-Running Domestic Workers of Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2019, Asia Pacific:
text: First, there is a sharp descent, with the quarry on your left, then a steep set of stairs up to Mount Butler, which has a great view of its own. Head down Mount Butler and turn left down the wide tarmac road, which winds to Quarry Bay and finishes near exit A of the MTR.
ref: 2020 May 13, Mark Agnew, “The best hikes with views of Hong Kong – take in the skyline from a new and unique angle”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 May 2020, Outdoor/Trail Running:
glosses: A peak in Eastern district, Hong Kong.
Diamond Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Cantonese 鑽石山 /钻石山 (zyun³ sek⁶ saan¹, literally “stone-mining hill”).
Senses: examples: text: Hong Kong’s Diamond Hill was once home to a mix of gamblers, thugs and movie stars. Over the last 20 years, the government cleared away much of the squalor (and history) to make way for a subway stop, generic high-rise housing developments and the cacophonous Hollywood Plaza shopping center.
ref: 2010 February 24, Julie Makinen, “A Green and Gold Gem in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2023, In Transit:
text: Diamond Hill has traditionally been one of the poorest parts of Hong Kong. In the 1950s and 60s, the area became one of the city's largest 'informal settlements', with squatter villages stretching down the slopes towards the city, housing some 50,000 people at their peak.
ref: 2011 October 2, Alex Frew Mcmillan, “Fung Tak Road, Diamond Hill”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2017:
text: After a brutal knife attack killed two women at a mall in Diamond Hill this month, Hong Kong police held a press conference which spelt out the shockingly indiscriminate nature of the assault.
ref: 2023 June 25, Lea Mok, “Series of knife attacks underscores mental health shortcomings in ‘happy Hong Kong’”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2023, Hong Kong:
glosses: An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.
San Po Kong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sanpokong
Etymology: From Cantonese 新蒲崗 /新蒲岗 (san¹ pou⁴ gong¹).
Senses: examples: text: Before Hong Kong's new airport is completed, you may also have to put up with the roar of airplane engines in Kowloon City, where Lion Rock Road is a center for cheap sportswear and Angus International specializes in silk. Good silk from China can also be found in the airport area at Citi Garments and other outlets in the slummy San Po Kong.
ref: 1991 October 11, Suzy Menkes, “Hong Kong's Fashion Bargains”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2023:
text: In the image presented was the look of a district: that of the industrial quarter in Hong Kong called San Po Kong.[…]
Massive sliding doors characterised these fearsome shops opening to the street. It was the pattern too with the other manufacturing premises continuing on along the narrow industrial thoroughfares of San Po Kong.
ref: 2014, Michael Bishton, chapter 1, in The Island, Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:
text: The electric car burst into flames 30 minutes after being parked in the city’s San Po Kong district on Sunday, the newspaper said, with three explosions seen on CCTV footage.
ref: 2019 May 14, Donny Kwok, Shellin Li, Yilei Sun, “Tesla car catches fire in Hong Kong parking lot: media”, in James Pomfret, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 May 2019, Technology News:
text: Bleak House ended up in San Po Kong, an industrial neighbourhood in Kowloon northeast of Kowloon City, quite simply because the right space became available at the right price at the right time.
ref: 2019 December 9, Christopher DeWolf, “Hong Kong neighbourhood where spark for 1967 riots was lit, San Po Kong once again playing role in protest – as host of talks on freedom, and humour in hard times”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2019, Travel & Leisure:
glosses: An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Ngau Chi Wan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ngauchiwan
form: Ngau Shi Wan
form: Ngaushiwan
Etymology: From Cantonese 牛池灣 /牛池湾 (ngau⁴ ci⁴ waan¹).
Senses: examples: text: Arising from a limited design competition, this winning scheme for residential accommodation at Ngau Chi Wan is located on a narrow strip of sloping land in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
ref: 2008, “Residental”, in Matt Davies, editor, P & T Group: 140 Years of Architecture in Asia (The Master Architect Series), The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:
text: With hindsight, the decision of Mildred and then her children to escape to Hong Kong was a no-brainer.[…]
They settled in a sordid shantytown known as Ngau Chi Wan, alongside thousands of other mainlanders.
ref: 2017, Scott Tong, “Lost and Found: Grandmother's Voice on Cassette”, in A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:
text: It’s late afternoon in Bo Fuk, a neighbourhood cha chaan teng in the East Kowloon village of Ngau Chi Wan, and a crowd of regulars has assembled for tea. “We’ve been coming here for about 10 years,” says a man sitting with his son. Why? He laughs. “It’s cheap!”
ref: 2017 November 7, Christopher DeWolf, “The stories behind Hong Kong districts: Ngau Chi Wan and Choi Hung – from lively rural village to the first low-cost housing estate”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2017, Travel & Leisure:
text: At the Wan Luen Home for Elderly (Yen Chow Street) in Sham Shui Po – where at least four residents were earlier infected – employees who tested positive using rapid antigen tests waited for up to six days to be sent to a hospital, HK01 reported.
Residents at Choi Wan Elderly Home in Ngau Chi Wan also experienced similar delays.
ref: 2022 February 14, Hillary Leung, “‘It’s a mess’: Covid-19 cases at dozens of Hong Kong care homes as elderly quarantine facilities overwhelmed”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2022, Hong Kong:
glosses: An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tsz Wan Shan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 慈雲山 (ci⁴ wan⁴ saan¹).
Senses: examples: text: The exceptional vitality of Mongkok, the capital city of all this vast industrial territory, owes something—perhaps very much—to the comparative deprivation of Tsz Wan Shan.
ref: 1977, Frank Leeming, “Time, Place and Community in Hong Kong”, in Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City (East Asian Social Science Monographs), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7:
text: He suffered hand injuries and was treated by an ambulance crew at the scene in Hong Kong's Tsz Wan Shan district on Saturday, the newspaper said.
ref: 2004 August 2, “World News Quick Take”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2004, World News, page 7:
text: Shum has been living alone in a property in Tsz Wan Shan following her husband’s death and her children’s marriages.
ref: 2015 June 19, Paul Benedict Lee, “Widow sues son over property ownership”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2024, Hong Kong, Law & Crime:
text: One of the areas in Hong Kong most profoundly impacted by the city’s third wave of coronavirus is Tsz Wan Shan. The usually bustling streets of the working-class neighbourhood in Kowloon now resemble a ghost town. Tsz Wan Shan has been the epicentre of a recent cluster of Covid-19 cases.
ref: 2020 August 18, “Empty spaces in Tsz Wan Shan amid Hong Kong’s third wave of coronavirus”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2021:
glosses: An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Kai Tak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately named after Kai Ho and Au Tak, the two original developers of the area.
Senses: examples: text: The present airport, at Kai Tak, in Kowloon, which has one runway, will be closed when the new one opens.
ref: 1990 January 7, “TRAVEL ADVISORY”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015, Travel:
text: Some residents of Kai Tak said they would consider organising protests, which would pose a significant headache for the government, and seeking a judicial review. They said the scheme ran contrary to plans to build a second central business district (CBD) in the area and could affect home prices.
"This is a matter of confidence in the government (planning)," said Cheung King-fan, a district councillor of Kai Tak area.
ref: 2023 February 10, Clare Jim, “Hong Kong's Lee faces stern test over $3.4 bln bid to ease housing shortage”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2023, Asia Pacific:
text: Members of the media gather at a land plot for light public housing in the Kai Tak area of Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Hong Kong plans to spend about HK$26 billion ($3.3 billion) on temporary apartments to help reduce the wait times for public housing in one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets.
ref: 2023 February 22, Shuli Ren, “Hong Kong’s Penthouses Face China’s ‘Common Prosperity’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2023, Business:
text: Hong Kong authorities should speed up tendering and construction of an elevated mass transit system in Kai Tak and consider extending it to East Kowloon to invigorate the area, local politicians have said, with the government earlier ruling out any extension.
ref: 2024 March 13, Cannix Yau, “Move faster on elevated Kai Tak mass transit system and consider extension, Hong Kong authorities urged”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2024, Hong Kong / Transport:
glosses: An area of Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
glosses: A former airport in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Kowloon Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After the nearby Kowloon City.
Senses: glosses: A bay in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
examples: text: Sau Mau Ping and Lam Tin are not the only contributors to the growth of the hinterland of Kwuntong. In all, government housing projects on the east side of Kowloon Bay, counting only those to the south of Ping Shek, and not including Kwuntong itself, have a total population of about 400,000 people; Kwuntong itself contributes about 80,000 in government or Housing Society housing, and about 150,000 in private accommodation.⁶ All these people live in an area which is in some sense tributary to Kwuntong. In the resettlement estates like Lam Tin whose communications with Kowloon are necessarily through Kwuntong, most people visit Kowloon only exceptionally, at holiday times and for special reasons.
ref: 1977, Frank Leeming, “Kwuntong”, in Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City (East Asian Social Science Monographs), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 127:
text: The nearest neighborhoods — Kwun Tong and Kowloon Bay — are somewhat rundown, and until planned public transportation connections are completed in the coming years, the terminal building’s rooftop gardens will be tough for ordinary visitors to reach.
ref: 2013 June 11, Bettina Wassener, “Hong Kong's Old Airport Reopens as a Cruise Ship Terminal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2013:
text: At 8:39 a.m. last Friday, the 24-hour McDonald’s restaurant in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, was as busy as always.
ref: 2015 October 6, Yanan Wang, “A homeless woman who died in McDonald’s was among Hong Kong’s legions of ‘McRefugees’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2015:
glosses: An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Kwun Tong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kwuntong
Etymology: From Cantonese 官塘 (gun¹ tong⁴) or an earlier equivalent.
Senses: glosses: An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
examples: text: The paper trail left behind by $2 million (1.38 million pounds) stolen from a hacked Ecuadorian bank runs cold in a windowless gamers’ crash pad in a gritty industrial area of Hong Kong.
The room, in a former factory in the Kwun Tong district, is the registered address for Jiushun Group Co., Ltd., the firm that received the largest single transfer of the $12 million reported missing from Ecuador's Banco del Austro (BDA) in January 2015.
ref: 2016 June 1, Clare Baldwin, Nathan Layne, Tris Pan, “Insight - Trail in Ecuador cyberheist leads to gamers’ crash pad in Hong Kong”, in David Greising, Kevin Krolicki, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2025, World:
text: The clashes in the district of Kwun Tong, in eastern Kowloon, were a marked departure from the peaceful, if sometimes tense, gatherings that had taken place over much of the last two weeks.
ref: 2019 August 24, Raymond Zhong, Steven Lee Myers, “Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas as Protests Turn Violent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2019, Asia Pacific:
text: The construction of the fountain in the city’s Kwun Tong district went ahead despite the district council passing a motion to halt the project last year.
ref: 2021 April 26, Candice Chau, “Water margins: Hong Kong music fountain with a HK$50 million price tag opens to underwhelmed public”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2023:
text: During her 38-year tenure, Winnie Poon made history as the first popularly elected female council member in Kwun Tong district and witnessed the councils become more democratic.
ref: 2023 December 7, KANIS LEUNG, “Hong Kong’s new election law thins the candidate pool, giving voters little option in Sunday’s polls”, in AP News, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2023, World News:
glosses: A district of Hong Kong.
Ngau Tau Kok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ngautaukok
Etymology: From Cantonese 牛頭角 /牛头角 (ngau⁴ tau⁴ gok³).
Senses: examples: text: An old Hakka woman, who was married into the Hakka stone-cutters’ settlement of Ngau Tau Kok in East Kowloon at the age of 9 in 1897, recalls that her sister-in-law bought hemp in Kowloon City market and brought it home to weave, took it back to Kowloon Street to be dyed and later brought it back to the village to make into clothes for the family. Making bedclothes and mosquito nets was also mentioned. Most items were dyed black in colour. Her husband’s family were Hakkas from near Taàm-shui and they had then been in Ngau Tau Kok for three generations.
ref: 1983, James Hayes, “Itinerant Weavers and the Cultivation of Hemp and Indigo”, in The Rural Communities of Hong Kong: Studies and Themes, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 189-190:
text: Deep in the working-class housing district of Ngau Tau Kok, Mr. Tong and his three officers were exasperated. They had visited 10 likely sites for sellers of pirated music CD's but had come up empty-handed.
ref: 1995 February 27, Edward A. Gargan, “Pirate's Bazaar Thrives in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Business Day, page 1:
text: The inferno at the Amoycan Industrial Centre in Ngau Tau Kok was brought under control at 7.38pm, more than 80 hours after it broke out on Tuesday, ­killing two firefighters over two days.
ref: 2016 June 24, Christy Leung, Emily Tsang, Phila Siu, “Killer Ngau Tau Kok fire tamed after 80 hours”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2016, Law and Crime:
text: The first phase of LPH scheme includes projects on Yau Pok Road in Yuen Long and Choi Hing Road in Ngau Tau Kok, with units available from the first quarter of 2025.
ref: 2024 July 15, James Lee, “Hong Kong ‘light public housing’ scheme receives 9,600 applications for 4,400 flats”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2024, Hong Kong:
glosses: An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Sau Mau Ping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 秀茂坪 (sau³ mau⁶ ping⁴).
Senses: examples: text: Mr Wong, 80, who witnessed the building of the temples - Tai Sing Temple, the Temple of Guan Yin and the Shing Wong Temple - said the location on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping, Kwun Tong, was decided by the gods.
ref: 2006 March 20, Andy Cheng, “Deities have given 40 years of good advice and healing”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2015, Hong Kong:
text: The erection of such new temples and statues can be seen as the manipulation of mythological material to accommodate the economic and political goals of the current government. For example, an event much touted on tourist sites on the Internet is a ritual performed at the temples at Sau Mau Ping in Kowloon, Hong Kong in honor of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, the subject of a reading in this chapter.
ref: 2017, Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths, 4th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 137:
text: More than 60 prosecutions have been brought by Hong Kong’s Labour Department against the contractor, subcontractors and individuals involved in a fatal crane collapse that occurred at a building site in Sau Mau Ping last September. Three were killed and six were injured in the incident.
ref: 2023 March 7, Lea Mok, “Contractor among 67 prosecutions over Hong Kong construction site crane collapse that killed 3”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024, Hong Kong:
text: A rehabus collided with a double-decker bus, injuring at least 14 people in Sau Mau Ping on Tuesday afternoon.
ref: 2023 December 5, “14 people were injured in a two-vehicle collision in Sau Mau Ping”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2023, Local:
glosses: An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: So Mo Ping
So Mau Ping
Lam Tin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 藍田 /蓝田 (laam⁴ tin⁴).
Senses: examples: text: Sau Mau Ping and Lam Tin are not the only contributors to the growth of the hinterland of Kwuntong. In all, government housing projects on the east side of Kowloon Bay, counting only those to the south of Ping Shek, and not including Kwuntong itself, have a total population of about 400,000 people; Kwuntong itself contributes about 80,000 in government or Housing Society housing, and about 150,000 in private accommodation.⁶ All these people live in an area which is in some sense tributary to Kwuntong. In the resettlement estates like Lam Tin whose communications with Kowloon are necessarily through Kwuntong, most people visit Kowloon only exceptionally, at holiday times and for special reasons.
ref: 1977, Frank Leeming, “Kwuntong”, in Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City (East Asian Social Science Monographs), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 127:
text: The Hong Kong government imposed a third “ambush-style” lockdown at a housing estate in Lam Tin on Sunday night, as two building blocks recorded 15 coronavirus infections in 12 days.
ref: 2021 February 1, Candice Chau, “In Pictures: Hong Kong imposes third overnight Covid-19 lockdown, no cases found after 400 tested”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2021:
text: The accident occurred after midday near a tunnel entrance on Tseung Kwan O Road in Lam Tin, a residential area in Kowloon. A taxi carried out a “careless lane change” and the other vehicles could not stop in time, causing the collision, senior police inspector Lee Pok-kit said.
ref: 2023 March 24, Kanis Leung, “Hong Kong traffic accident leaves 87 people injured”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2023, World:
glosses: An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
glosses: A village of Tsing Yi Rural Committee, Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: sense: village
word: Lam Tin Tsuen
Related terms: Lantian
Yau Tong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjaʊ ˈtɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈjaʊ ˈtɒŋ/
Etymology: From Cantonese 油塘 (jau⁴ tong⁴).
Senses: examples: text: When angry construction workers seeking unpaid wages stormed a site office in Yau Tong in July 2002, their violent clash with the police set alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power.
ref: 2011, Alvin Y. So, “The Development of Post-Modernist Social Movements”, in Jeffrey Broadbent, Vicky Brockman, editors, East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region (Social Sciences / Sociology), Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:
text: “When people see my work, they can respond because they can really feel it,” she said on a recent evening in Yau Tong, an industrial area in eastern Kowloon. “They feel that they’ve been understood.”
ref: 2017 March 30, Mike Ives, “As Hong Kong Ponders Its Future Under Beijing, Politics Infuses Its Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2017, Asia Pacific:
text: On Wednesday night, police intervened when note posters scuffled with men trying to remove them in Yau Tong, a working class neighborhood on the eastern side of Kowloon, across the harbor from Hong Kong island.
ref: 2019 July 11, Joyce Zhou, John Ruwitch, Tyrone Siu, Felix Tam, Vimvam Tong, “Imagine all the Post-its: Hong Kong protesters come together with 'Lennon Walls'”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2019, World News:
text: Hong Kong saw one of its first protests since Covid-19 restrictions were eased, as a group of environmental activists protested against the illegal operation of a concrete plant in Yau Tong on Saturday.
ref: 2023 February 4, Candice Chau, “Environmental protesters rally against illegal concrete plant in Hong Kong amid heavy police presence”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2024, Hong Kong:
text: Hong Kong police have arrested a man and seized more than HK$12 million (US$1.53 million) worth of drugs from two industrial building units in Yau Tong suspected to be the manufacturing base for a drug syndicate.
ref: 2024 April 21, Lo Hoi-ying, “Hong Kong police arrest 25-year-old man over drug trafficking and seize more than HK$12 million worth of narcotics”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2024, Law and Crime:
glosses: An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Kwai Chung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 葵涌 (kwai⁴ cung¹).
Senses: examples: text: Lying close to Kowloon and facing onto the western approaches to Hong Kong Harbour, Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung were the obvious geographical areas for initial expansion.
ref: 2006, James Hayes, “Village Removals for New Town Development 1960 Onward: Resitings and New Modes of Compensation”, in The Great Difference: Hong Kong's New Territories and Its People, 1898-2004, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 97:
text: The department continued to plan and build fire stations and ambulance depots to cope with the city's growing development and service needs and to adhere to the Government's policy of providing the fastest response possible to emergencies. During the year, a new fire station in Kowloon Tong and two ambulance depots in Mong Kok and Kwai Chung were commissioned.
ref: 2007, Hong Kong 2006, Information Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332:
text: Tens of thousands of protesters rallied peacefully during heavy rain at a sports stadium in the Kwai Chung area of the city on Sunday.
ref: 2019 August 25, “Hong Kong: Shot fired, water cannon deployed after petrol-bomb attack”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2019:
text: A police officer on July 30 aimed a shotgun at protesters during a clash in the Kwai Chung district, where residents usually catch the bus. The Hong Kong Police Force later said the weapon had been loaded with beanbag rounds, and that the officer drew it only after protesters attacked him.
ref: 2019 October 31, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong’s Jarring Protests: Clashes Fade, Then Flare Up Again”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2019, Asia Pacific:
glosses: An area of Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Tsuen Wan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tsun Wan
form: Tsin Wan
form: Ts'ün Wán
Etymology: From Cantonese 荃灣 (cyun⁴ waan¹).
Senses: glosses: An area and town in Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
examples: text: Tsuen Wan was one of Hong Kong’s most densely populated districts during the 1960s, thanks to migrant workers from the mainland arriving in the area to provide labour for the textile industry. The migrants also invested in property which helped the area to prosper.
ref: 2017 September 12, Maggie Suen, “You're missing out if you haven't discovered the hidden gems and history of Tsuen Wan”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2021, Lifestyle:
text: The northwestern district of Tsuen Wan also saw police firing tear gas to disperse protesters chased from the Citywalk shopping mall.
ref: 2019 November 10, “Hong Kong protests continue amid rage at activist death”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2019, News:
text: He ran in the 2019 district council elections, beating veteran pro-establishment politician Michael Tien in the Tsuen Wan district.
ref: 2021 December 17, Alice Fung, Zen Soo, “Hong Kong public gears up to vote amid new election laws”, in AP News, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2021:
glosses: A district of Hong Kong.
glosses: A rural committee in Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing districts, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Tuen Mun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 屯門 (tyun⁴ mun⁴).
Senses: glosses: A district of Hong Kong.
examples: text: In accommodating sites at Tuen Mun (Castle Peak) for about 500,000 people as a part of the government’s new housing requirements, it immediately became apparent that the overall target population for the town as a whole was likely to approach over one million (similar to that of the earlier Tsuen Wan scheme).
ref: 1989, Roger Bristow, “Strategic Planning and the New Towns”, in Hong Kong's New Towns: A Selective Review, Hong Kong; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87:
text: Last weekend, thousands of protesters rallied in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Tuen Mun against a group of middle-aged mainland women who they accused of causing a disturbance in the local park with loud singing and provocative dancing.
ref: 2019 July 13, Amy Qin, Ezra Cheung, “Hong Kong Protest Against Mainland Chinese Traders Turns Violent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2019, ASIA PACIFIC:
text: Hong Kong police said they had detained two foreign men during what police there call a "dispersal operation" against a group of demonstrators gathered in Tuen Mun, Reuters reported.
ref: 2019 November 15, Melissa Van Brunnersum, “Two German citizens detained in Hong Kong”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2019, News:
text: Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has alerted police after two men filmed themselves on top of a moving train in Tuen Mun, a stunt known as train surfing.
ref: 2023 January 10, Hillary Leung, “Hong Kong police alerted over video of two men ‘surfing’ roof of moving MTR train”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2024, Hong Kong:
glosses: An area and town in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong
glosses: A rural committee in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: Castle Peak
Yuen Long
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Un Long
form: Ün Long
form: Ünlong
Etymology: From Cantonese 元朗 (jyun⁴ long⁵) or an earlier variant.
Senses: examples: text: On Sunday in Yuen Long, a part of the city near the overland border with China, a pro-Beijing group of a few hundred men dressed in white shirts entered the subway station and pummeled people with sticks and bats, targeting anti-government protesters returning from the march as well as journalists.
ref: 2019 July 21, Shibani Mahtani, “Police dramatically increase security in Hong Kong as protests continue unabated”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2019, Asia & Pacific:
text: More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.
ref: 2021 July 23, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021, Asia Pacific:
glosses: An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
examples: text: Each district is divided in turn into rural township units, which usually include from ten to thirty villages. In Yuen Long District, these smaller administrative units are called hsiang.
ref: 1968, Jack M. Potter, “The Setting”, in Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:
text: The wetland park is situated on the northern tip of Tin Shui Wan^([sic – meaning Tin Shui Wai]) in the Yuen Long District near the Chinese border.
ref: 2009, Helen Oon, “New Territories”, in Hong Kong (Globetrotters Travel Guide), 1st edition, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:
text: In the northern district of Yuen Long, a police officer opened fire when he was surrounded in his car and attacked by locals. A petrol bomb exploded at the officer's feet.
"A large group of rioters attacked a plainclothes police officer in Yuen Long district. The police officer fell onto the ground and was beaten up by the group. Facing serious threat to his life, he fired one shot in self-defense," police said in a statement.
ref: 2019 October 5, “Hong Kong protests continue after night of violence that halted rail services”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2019, News:
glosses: A district of Hong Kong.
drop the hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops the hammer
form: dropping the hammer
form: dropped the hammer
form: dropped the hammer
Senses: examples: text: Naturally, the Frat Boy and the Toadmeister decided to hold a contest to see who could “drop the hammer” with Pippi first.
ref: 2008 [2001], Toby Young, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: To take action.
Tin Shui Wai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 天水圍 /天水围 (tin¹ seoi² wai⁴).
Senses: examples: text: The sole commercial site is in the town of Tin Shui Wai, in the northwestern New Territories, where the government hopes to boost the economy. The suburban high-rise town has been dubbed the "City of Tears" in local media because of its high rate of social problems.
ref: 2011 December 21, Joy Leung, Twinnie Siu, Alex Frew McMillan, “Hong Kong to build on land sales after meeting target”, in Chris Lewis, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2024, Markets:
text: These changes are strikingly visible in Tin Shui Wai, a suburb of high-rise housing a stone’s throw from the border with mainland China.
ref: 2019 September 27, Max Fisher, “‘One Country, Two Nationalisms’: The Crisis Behind Hong Kong’s Turmoil”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2019, Asia Pacific:
text: A fire that broke out on Tuesday at a Tin Shui Wai construction site has raged on for more than 24 hours, as firefighters continued battling the blaze on Wednesday evening.
ref: 2024 April 10, James Lee, “Firefighters battle blaze at Hong Kong construction site for more than 24 hours”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2024, Hong Kong:
glosses: An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Sheung Shui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyo͝ongʹ shwāʹ
Etymology: From Cantonese 上水 (soeng⁶ seoi²).
Senses: examples: text: Although a slowing economy and campaigns against extravagant consumption by government officials have hurt most luxury shopping hubs in Hong Kong, business has been booming in the New Territories. This is especially true along the East Rail Line, which links China with Hong Kong and runs through Sheung Shui and the towns of Fanling, Tai Po and Sha Tin, all of which offer walking access to large malls.[…]
One major initiative, the Northeast New Territories New Development Areas, involves building more than 60,000 apartments for about 175,000 people by 2022 and merging the towns of Sheung Shui and Fanling into a town of 500,000. It is projected to cost $15.5 billion.
ref: 2014 June 10, Chris Horton, “Chinese Shoppers Change Hong Kong Border Area”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2014, Commercial Real Estate:
text: Sheung Shui, an area that borders mainland China, has been roiled by several large protests in recent weeks, with calls from local residents to “reclaim” the area from Chinese tourists and merchants. It was not immediately clear whether the raw chicken was the result of a genuine kitchen mistake or linked to the unrest in Sheung Shui.
ref: 2019 September 7, Rebecca Tan, “Amid protests, Hong Kong police receive a peculiar delivery: 100 meal boxes with raw chicken”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2019, Asia:
text: Last summer, pro-democracy protesters harassed Chinese traders in Sheung Shui and smashed storefronts that catered to them in the Hong Kong border town, angry at what they saw as a de facto invasion.
ref: 2020 May 25, Sarah Wu, “Hong Kong border town slumps as mainland traders vanish”, in Marius Zaharia, Bill Rigby, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2024:
glosses: An area and town in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
glosses: A rural committee in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Fanling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fan Ling
form: Fan Leng
Etymology: From Cantonese 粉嶺 /粉岭 (fan² leng⁵).
Senses: examples: text: Although a slowing economy and campaigns against extravagant consumption by government officials have hurt most luxury shopping hubs in Hong Kong, business has been booming in the New Territories. This is especially true along the East Rail Line, which links China with Hong Kong and runs through Sheung Shui and the towns of Fanling, Tai Po and Sha Tin, all of which offer walking access to large malls.[…]
One major initiative, the Northeast New Territories New Development Areas, involves building more than 60,000 apartments for about 175,000 people by 2022 and merging the towns of Sheung Shui and Fanling into a town of 500,000. It is projected to cost $15.5 billion.
ref: 2014 June 10, Chris Horton, “Chinese Shoppers Change Hong Kong Border Area”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2014, Commercial Real Estate:
text: Fanling in the New Territories was once a rural outpost, but it has quickly developed into an area with a mix of high rises and low-density developments.
ref: 2016 December 30, Jimmy Chow, “Fanling becomes cross-border hub of low-rise luxury property”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2018, Property:
text: The crash in the New Territories of Hong Kong that border mainland China tore away much of the left side of the bus and ripped a jagged hole in its roof.[…]
Police said the bus was traveling on a highway from the town of Fanling.
ref: 2019 December 18, “Hong Kong bus crash kills 6, injures more than 30 others”, in AP News, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2024:
text: A Reuters witness saw several masked protesters, clad in black, rush into the public housing block in the Fanling district near to the border with China, and set alight a Molotov cocktail.[…]
Hong Kong authorities had said they would convert “Fai Ming Estate, an unoccupied public estate in Fanling, into temporary flats for quarantine and observation of close contact persons without symptoms if needed.”
ref: 2020 January 26, Jessie Pang, Felix Tam, Tyrone Siu, Aleksander Solum, Ben Blanchard, James Pomfret, “Hong Kong bars Hubei residents from entering city as coronavirus fears intensify”, in Toby Chopra, Louise Heavens, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2020, EMERGING MARKETS:
glosses: An area and town in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
glosses: A rural committee in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.