Tin Shui Wai

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 天水圍 / 天水围 (tin1 seoi2 wai4), when the initial of the second syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tin Shui Wai

  1. An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 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[1], archived from the original on 07 January 2024, Markets:
      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.
    • 2019 September 27, Max Fisher, “‘One Country, Two Nationalisms’: The Crisis Behind Hong Kong’s Turmoil”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 September 2019, Asia Pacific‎[3]:
      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.
    • 2024 April 10, James Lee, “Firefighters battle blaze at Hong Kong construction site for more than 24 hours”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎[4], archived from the original on 06 October 2024, Hong Kong:
      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.

Translations

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.