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Tuen Mun

Tuen Mun proper noun: a district of Hong Kong.

Proper noun

Tuen Mun

  1. A district of Hong Kong.
  2. An area and town in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong
    • In accommodating sites at Tuen Mun (Castle Peak) for about 500,000 people as a part of the government’s new housing requirements, it immediately became apparent that the overall target population for the town as a whole was likely to approach over one million (similar to that of the earlier Tsuen...1989, Roger Bristow, “Strategic Planning and the New Towns”, in Hong Kong's New Towns: A Selective Review, Hong Kong; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87
    • Last weekend, thousands of protesters rallied in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Tuen Mun against a group of middle-aged mainland women who they accused of causing a disturbance in the local park with loud singing and provocative dancing.2019 July 13, Amy Qin, Ezra Cheung, “Hong Kong Protest Against Mainland Chinese Traders Turns Violent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2019, ASIA PACIFIC
  3. A rural committee in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Examples of Tuen Mun in a sentence

  • Hong Kong police said they had detained two foreign men during what police there call a "dispersal operation" against a group of demonstrators gathered in Tuen Mun, Reuters reported.2019 November 15, Melissa Van Brunnersum, “Two German citizens detained in Hong Kong”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 15...
  • Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has alerted police after two men filmed themselves on top of a moving train in Tuen Mun, a stunt known as train surfing.2023 January 10, Hillary Leung, “Hong Kong police alerted over video of two men ‘surfing’ roof of moving MTR train”, in Hong Kong Free...

Synonyms of Tuen Mun

  • Castle Peak

Origin of Tuen Mun

From Cantonese 屯門 (tyun⁴ mun⁴).

Questions about Tuen Mun

What does Tuen Mun mean?
Tuen Mun means a district of Hong Kong.
How do you use Tuen Mun in a sentence?
Hong Kong police said they had detained two foreign men during what police there call a "dispersal operation" against a group of demonstrators gathered in Tuen Mun, Reuters reported.
What part of speech is Tuen Mun?
Tuen Mun is a proper noun.

Words near Tuen Mun in the dictionary

  1. tueirons
  2. tuel
  3. Tuell
  4. Tuells
  5. tuels
  6. Tuen Mun
  7. Tuen Ng Festival
  8. Tuena
  9. tuename
  10. Tuensang
  11. Tuerong

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