Tsz Wan Shan

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 慈雲山 (ci⁴ wan⁴ saan¹).

Proper noun

Tsz Wan Shan

1. An area in Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   • 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)‎^[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7:

     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.

   • 2004 August 2, “World News Quick Take”, in Taipei Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2004-10-13, World News, page 7‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 2015 June 19, Paul Benedict Lee, “Widow sues son over property ownership”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[4], archived from the original on 7 January 2024, Hong Kong, Law & Crime:

     Shum has been living alone in a property in Tsz Wan Shan following her husband’s death and her children’s marriages.

   • 2020 August 18, “Empty spaces in Tsz Wan Shan amid Hong Kong’s third wave of coronavirus”, in South China Morning Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-06:

     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.

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 慈雲山／慈云山 (ci⁴ wan⁴ saan¹)

  Mandarin: 慈雲山／慈云山 (Cíyúnshān)

Further reading

• Tsz Wan Shan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.