Sau Mau Ping

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 秀茂坪 (sau³ mau⁶ ping⁴).

Proper noun

Sau Mau Ping

1. An area in Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   • 2006 March 20, Andy Cheng, “Deities have given 40 years of good advice and healing”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-04-02, Hong Kong‎^[2]:

     Mr Wong, 80, who witnessed the building of the temples - Tai Sing Temple, the Temple of Guan Yin and the Shing Wong Temple - said the location on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping, Kwun Tong, was decided by the gods.

   • 2017, Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths‎^[3], 4th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 137:

     The erection of such new temples and statues can be seen as the manipulation of mythological material to accommodate the economic and political goals of the current government. For example, an event much touted on tourist sites on the Internet is a ritual performed at the temples at Sau Mau Ping in Kowloon, Hong Kong in honor of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, the subject of a reading in this chapter.

   • 2023 March 7, Lea Mok, “Contractor among 67 prosecutions over Hong Kong construction site crane collapse that killed 3”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[4], archived from the original on 02 February 2024, Hong Kong:

     More than 60 prosecutions have been brought by Hong Kong’s Labour Department against the contractor, subcontractors and individuals involved in a fatal crane collapse that occurred at a building site in Sau Mau Ping last September. Three were killed and six were injured in the incident.

Synonyms

• So Mo Ping, So Mau Ping

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 秀茂坪 (sau³ mau⁶ ping⁴)

Further reading

• Sau Mau Ping at Google Ngram Viewer