Yuen Long
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Etymology edit
From Cantonese 元朗 (jyun4 long5) or an earlier variant.
Proper noun edit
Yuen Long
- An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
- 2019 July 21, Shibani Mahtani, “Police dramatically increase security in Hong Kong as protests continue unabated”, in The Washington Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-21, Asia & Pacific[2]:
- 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.
- 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[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-23, Asia Pacific[4]:
- 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.
- A district of Hong Kong.
- 1968, Jack M. Potter, “The Setting”, in Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village[5], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:
- 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.
Translations edit
area in Hong Kong
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Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuen Long”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3537, column 3
- Yuen Long, Un Long at Google Ngram Viewer