Cheung Sha Wan

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 長沙灣／长沙湾 (coeng⁴ saa¹ waan^1-4).

Proper noun

Cheung Sha Wan

1. An area in 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^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-22, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2023 February 22, Shuli Ren, “Hong Kong’s Penthouses Face China’s ‘Common Prosperity’”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 August 2023, Business‎^[4]:

     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.

Related terms

• Cheung Sha

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 長沙灣／长沙湾 (coeng⁴ saa¹ waan^1-4)