Cheung Sha Wanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Cantonese 長沙灣 / 长沙湾 (coeng saa waan), when the initial of the second syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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固有名詞

Cheung Sha Wan

1. An area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   • 2019 July 22, Alexandra Stevenson, Jin Wu, “Tiny Apartments and Punishing Work Hours: The Economic Roots of Hong Kong’s Protests”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-22, Asia Pacific‎:

     A government-run affordable-housing development in Hong Kong’s Cheung Sha Wan district. Critics of the city’s government say officials want to avoid building more.

   • 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, archived from the original on February 18, 2022, Asia Pacific‎:

     Lam was one of dozens of patients lying in the parking lot of Caritas on Thursday, after there was no more room inside the hospital that serves 400,000 people in the working-class district of Cheung Sha Wan on the Kowloon peninsula. Temperatures dipped to 15 degrees Celsius (59 Fahrenheit) amid some rain.

   • 2023 February 22, Shuli Ren, “Hong Kong’s Penthouses Face China’s ‘Common Prosperity’”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 August 2023, Business‎:

     After all, Hong Kong’s builders have already started resorting to price cuts to boost their sales. Earlier this month, CK Asset Holdings Ltd. slashed its offerings by as much as 18% at Seaside Sonata in Cheung Sha Wan.

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