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Tai Ping Shan

Tai Ping Shan proper noun: an area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

Proper noun

Tai Ping Shan

  1. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
    • Farther on is Tai Ping Shan, the residents of which were once followers of a famous Chinese pirate. The old tenements are reminders of nineteenth-century village China. There are three temples in Tai Ping Shan, all crowded with joss sticks, tablets in memory of the dead, and fortune tellers.1984, “Exploring Hong Kong”, in Fodor's Hong Kong and Macau, New York: Fodor's Travel Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68
    • Tai Ping Shan (peace mountain) is, strictly speaking, not a mountain but a hillside district in Victoria situated to the south of Sheung Wan between Queen's Road and Caine Road.2012, Qizhang Dong, “The Curse of Tai Ping Shan”, in Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76

Origin of Tai Ping Shan

From Cantonese 太平山 (taai³ ping⁴ saan¹).

Questions about Tai Ping Shan

What does Tai Ping Shan mean?
Tai Ping Shan means an area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
What part of speech is Tai Ping Shan?
Tai Ping Shan is a proper noun.

Words near Tai Ping Shan in the dictionary

  1. Tai Lake
  2. Tai Long
  3. Tai Long Wan
  4. Tai O
  5. Tai Ping
  6. Tai Ping Shan
  7. Tai Po
  8. Tai Shan
  9. tai tai
  10. Tai Tam
  11. Tai Tham

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