Sai Ying Pun

English

Alternative forms

• Sei Ying Poon, Sei-ying-poon, Sai Ying Poon, Sy-ing-poon

Etymology

From Cantonese 西營盤／西营盘 (sai¹ jing⁴ pun⁴, literally “West Camp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪ jɪŋ puːn/

Proper noun

Sai Ying Pun

1. An area in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
   • 2012, Timothy Choy, “Air's Substantiations”, in Kaushik Sunder Rajan, editor, Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets‎^[1], Duke University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123:

     The winter of poor air had also forced my partner, Zamira, and me to relocate from our apartment in Sai Ying Pun, an aging urban district in Western Hong Kong where we had been living since arriving in the city, to a flat in a village house in Mui Wo, a rural town on the coast of Lantau Island.

   • 2020 July 13, Austin Ramzy, Elaine Yu, Tiffany May, “Hong Kong Voters Defy Beijing, Endorsing Protest Leaders in Primary”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-14‎^[3]:

     Sage Ip, a 29-year-old flight attendant who cast her ballot on Sunday in the Sai Ying Pun district, said she voted in the primary because she was worried that she would never get a chance to do so again. “Voting is something that is still within our capacity. We can’t express ourselves at protests anymore.”

   • 2021 March 12, Farah Master, Twinnie Siu, “COVID-19 outbreak at Hong Kong gym sends shivers through expat community”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 2021-03-12, Emerging Markets‎^[5]:

     Hong Kong’s health department told a briefing that around 47 cases were related to the outbreak at Ursus Fitness, a gym in the city’s trendy Sai Ying Pun district, which is popular with expatriate lawyers, bankers and hedge fund executives.

   • 2021 March 15, Candice Chau, “Covid-19: 2 cases found after almost 3,500 people tested in Mid-Levels ‘ambush’ lockdowns”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[6], archived from the original on 03 March 2024, Hong Kong:

     Following the outbreak at the Ursus Fitness gym in Sai Ying Pun, the government announced two ambush lockdowns on Saturday, and another on Sunday, in the Mid-Levels district.

   • 2021 March 24, Zen Soo, “Hong Kong halts use of Pfizer vaccine, cites defective lids”, in AP News‎^[7], archived from the original on March 24, 2021‎^[8]:

     Some residents who had appointments to receive the Pfizer shots stood in line outside a community center in the city’s Sai Ying Pun neighborhood at about 10.30 a.m. They eventually left when it became clear the vaccines would not be administered.

Synonyms

• (area in Hong Kong): SYP

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 西營盤／西营盘 (sai¹ jing⁴ pun⁴)

Further reading

• Alfred Y.K. Lau (1995) “The Origin of Sai Ying Pun: A Pirate's Fortification or a British Military Encampment?”, in Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society‎^[9], volume 35, pages 59-73
• Sai Ying Pun, Sai Ying Poon at Google Ngram Viewer