Ngau Tau Kok

English

Alternative forms

• Ngautaukok

Etymology

From Cantonese 牛頭角／牛头角 (ngau⁴ tau⁴ gok³).

Proper noun

Ngau Tau Kok

1. An area in Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   • 1983, James Hayes, “Itinerant Weavers and the Cultivation of Hemp and Indigo”, in The Rural Communities of Hong Kong: Studies and Themes‎^[1], Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 189-190:

     An old Hakka woman, who was married into the Hakka stone-cutters’ settlement of Ngau Tau Kok in East Kowloon at the age of 9 in 1897, recalls that her sister-in-law bought hemp in Kowloon City market and brought it home to weave, took it back to Kowloon Street to be dyed and later brought it back to the village to make into clothes for the family. Making bedclothes and mosquito nets was also mentioned. Most items were dyed black in colour. Her husband’s family were Hakkas from near Taàm-shui and they had then been in Ngau Tau Kok for three generations.

   • 1995 February 27, Edward A. Gargan, “Pirate's Bazaar Thrives in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, Business Day, page 1‎^[3]:

     Deep in the working-class housing district of Ngau Tau Kok, Mr. Tong and his three officers were exasperated. They had visited 10 likely sites for sellers of pirated music CD's but had come up empty-handed.

   • 2016 June 24, Christy Leung, Emily Tsang, Phila Siu, “Killer Ngau Tau Kok fire tamed after 80 hours”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 June 2016, Law and Crime‎^[5]:

     The inferno at the Amoycan Industrial Centre in Ngau Tau Kok was brought under control at 7.38pm, more than 80 hours after it broke out on Tuesday, ­killing two firefighters over two days.

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牛頭角／牛头角 (ngau⁴ tau⁴ gok³)

Further reading

• Ngau Tau Kok, Ngautaukok at Google Ngram Viewer