Shek Tong Tsui
Shek Tong Tsui proper noun: an area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
Proper noun
Shek Tong Tsui
- An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
- The man had arrived in a sampan while the cargo was being transferred from the barges which had been towed out to the Yorktown from the cargo handling basin at Shek Tong Tsui on the Island.1992, Brian Nicholson, chapter 16, in 1997: A Conspiracy to Destroy Hong Kong, Saffron Walden, Essex: Bear Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252
- Huang Deyun was a woman with considerable ambition, and it is easy to see why, when she heard that Governor Nathan had issued a directive that the brothels in Possession Street were to be moved to the seaside district of Shek Tong Tsui, so that the first settlers in this newly opened-up area would...2005, Shu-ching Shih, translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt, City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 211
Origin of Shek Tong Tsui
From Cantonese 石塘咀 (sek⁶ tong⁴ zeoi²).
Questions about Shek Tong Tsui
- What does Shek Tong Tsui mean?
- Shek Tong Tsui means an area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
- What part of speech is Shek Tong Tsui?
- Shek Tong Tsui is a proper noun.
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