Ma On Shan

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 馬鞍山 (maa5 on1 saan1), when the initial of the third syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Proper noun

Ma On Shan

  1. An area and town in Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 2019 October 11, Mike Ives, “At Hong Kong Protests, Art That Imitates Life”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 October 2019, Asia Pacific‎[2]:
      The poster below, on a wall in the Ma On Shan district in northeastern Hong Kong, seems to liken front line protesters to the protagonists of a battle scene in a Renaissance oil painting.
  2. A peak in Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 1995, Edward Stokes, “Sai Kung Peninsula”, in Hong Kong's Wild Places: An Environmental Exploration‎[3], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95, column 1:
      The next morning we looked over to where we had been the day before: on Ma On Shan’s buttress-like spurs and its 702-metre summit. The saddle between the two highest points, for which Ma On Shan (Horse Saddle Mountain) is named, stood out.
  3. A village of Sha Tin Rural Committee, Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Synonyms

  • (village): Ma On Shan Tsuen

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