Sham Shui Po

English

Alternative forms

• Shamshuipo

Etymology

From Cantonese 深水埗 (sam1 seoi2 bou6-2).

Proper noun

Sham Shui Po

1. An area in Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   • [1900, J. Dyer Ball, “Railways”, in Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China‎^[2], 3rd edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 506:

     Another proposal some years ago was for a line to be constructed from Canton to Sham-shui-po near the Cosmopolitan Docks in British territory, on the mainland opposite Hongkong.]

   • 2019 August 11, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong Protesters Gather Amid Fears of Mob Violence”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-11‎^[4]:

     The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit.

   • 2021 August 18, Lee Cobaj, “Best things to do in Hong Kong”, in The Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-25‎^[6]:

     Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints.

   • 2022 February 18, James Pomfret, Joyce Zhou, “Hong Kong working-class district reels as COVID runs rampant”, in Anne Marie Roantree, Karishma Singh, editors, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 18 February 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[8]:

     Once largely insulated from the coronavirus pandemic, Hong Kong is facing a citywide outbreak, with businesses buckling and some losing patience with the government's "zero COVID" policies.
     In the cluster of working-class districts in nearby Sham Shui Po, some residential blocks and public housing estates have been sealed off, crowds in malls and street markets have thinned, and once teeming diners known as dai pai dongs and stalls selling knick-knacks are quieter after dark.

   • 2022 September 12, Theodora Yu, Louise Delmotte, “Climate change in Hong Kong worsens housing crisis for city’s poor”, in The Washington Post‎^[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-12, World‎^[10]:

     On Au’s rooftop in the gentrifying neighborhood of Sham Shui Po, the metal hut traps heat inside the 300-square-foot space.

2. A district of Hong Kong.

Synonyms

• (area in Hong Kong): (initialism) SSP

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 深水埗

district of Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 深水埗區／深水埗区 (sam¹ seoi² bou^6-2 keoi¹)

Further reading

• Sham Shui Po, Shamshuipo at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.