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Cheung Sha Wan

Cheung Sha Wan proper noun: an area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Proper noun

Cheung Sha Wan

  1. An area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    • 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.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...
    • 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...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 18...

Examples of Cheung Sha Wan in a sentence

  • Earlier this month, CK Asset Holdings Ltd. slashed its offerings by as much as 18% at Seaside Sonata in Cheung Sha Wan.2023 February 22, Shuli Ren, “Hong Kong’s Penthouses Face China’s ‘Common Prosperity’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
  • Hong Kong authorities have rejected an NGO’s application to open a homeless shelter in Cheung Sha Wan, just days after opposition from lawmakers, district councillors, and residents.2025 May 20, James Lee, “Hong Kong gov’t rejects NGO’s plan to open homeless shelter in Cheung Sha Wan following public opposition”, in...

Origin of Cheung Sha Wan

From Cantonese 長沙灣 /长沙湾 (coeng⁴ saa¹ waan¹⁻⁴).

Questions about Cheung Sha Wan

What does Cheung Sha Wan mean?
Cheung Sha Wan means an area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
How do you use Cheung Sha Wan in a sentence?
Earlier this month, CK Asset Holdings Ltd. slashed its offerings by as much as 18% at Seaside Sonata in Cheung Sha Wan.
What part of speech is Cheung Sha Wan?
Cheung Sha Wan is a proper noun.

Words near Cheung Sha Wan in the dictionary

  1. cheugs
  2. cheugy
  3. Cheung
  4. Cheung Chau
  5. cheung fun
  6. Cheung Sha Wan
  7. Cheungs
  8. cheups
  9. cheupsed
  10. cheupses
  11. cheupsing

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