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Un Long

Un Long is the alternative form of Yuen Long.

Meaning of Yuen Long

Proper noun

Yuen Long

  1. An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • On Sunday in Yuen Long, a part of the city near the overland border with China, a pro-Beijing group of a few hundred men dressed in white shirts entered the subway station and pummeled people with sticks and bats, targeting anti-government protesters returning from the march as well as journalists.2019 July 21, Shibani Mahtani, “Police dramatically increase security in Hong Kong as protests continue unabated”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2019...
  2. A district of Hong Kong.
    • Each district is divided in turn into rural township units, which usually include from ten to thirty villages. In Yuen Long District, these smaller administrative units are called hsiang.1968, Jack M. Potter, “The Setting”, in Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11

Origin of Un Long

From an earlier romanisation Ün Long.

Questions about Un Long

What is Un Long the alternative form of?
Un Long is the alternative form of Yuen Long.

Words near Un Long in the dictionary

  1. umzimbeet
  2. Umzinto
  3. umZulu
  4. un
  5. UN General Assembly
  6. Un Long
  7. UN Security Council
  8. UN*X
  9. UN*Xes
  10. un-
  11. un-aged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Un Long (page history and authors); Yuen Long (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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