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Tseung Kwan O

Tseung Kwan O proper noun: an area and town in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Proper noun

Tseung Kwan O

  1. An area and town in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • Separately, a recently completed consultancy study has recommended the provision of 22 ha of land in the southeastern part of Hong Kong at Tseung Kwan O for deep waterfront industries, high value-added chemical processing, and manufacturing of bulk chemical storage facilities.1996, Yip Chi Wai, “Hong Kong”, in Developing Supporting Industries in Asia-Pacific, Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 86
    • Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the...2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022, Sinosphere
  2. A bay in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 9. Port Shelter. Good anchorage for any size of ships. Chiefly useful as being deep close to shore, and divided from Tseung Kwan O by a small neck of land ¼ miles wide.1899, Commander de Horsey, R.N., Report on the Harbours in Mirs Bay

Examples of Tseung Kwan O in a sentence

  • Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m.2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  • On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators had dressed in black and marched peacefully in the town of Tseung Kwan O.2019 August 5, “Hong Kong leader warns city in a 'very dangerous situation'”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019...
  • Participants chanted slogans against the reclamation project as they marched in the rain with banners in the eastern district of Tseung Kwan O, where the project is slated to be built.2023 March 26, Jessie Pang, Xie Yu, James Pomfret, “Hong Kong police keep tight tabs on first authorised protest in years”, in Reuters...

Synonyms of Tseung Kwan O

  • Junk Bay

Origin of Tseung Kwan O

From Cantonese 將軍澳 (zoeng¹ gwan¹ ou³).

Questions about Tseung Kwan O

What does Tseung Kwan O mean?
Tseung Kwan O means an area and town in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
How do you use Tseung Kwan O in a sentence?
Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m.
What part of speech is Tseung Kwan O?
Tseung Kwan O is a proper noun.

Words near Tseung Kwan O in the dictionary

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  5. tsetze
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  7. Tseytin transformation
  8. Tsez
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  10. Tsezic
  11. TSG

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