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Yau Tong

/ˈjaʊ ˈtɒŋ/US/ˈjaʊ ˈtɔŋ/

Yau Tong proper noun: an area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Proper noun

Yau Tong

  1. An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    • When angry construction workers seeking unpaid wages stormed a site office in Yau Tong in July 2002, their violent clash with the police set alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power.2011, Alvin Y. So, “The Development of Post-Modernist Social Movements”, in Jeffrey Broadbent, Vicky Brockman, editors, East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region...
    • “When people see my work, they can respond because they can really feel it,” she said on a recent evening in Yau Tong, an industrial area in eastern Kowloon. “They feel that they’ve been understood.”2017 March 30, Mike Ives, “As Hong Kong Ponders Its Future Under Beijing, Politics Infuses Its Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2017, Asia Pacific

Origin of Yau Tong

From Cantonese 油塘 (jau⁴ tong⁴).

Questions about Yau Tong

What does Yau Tong mean?
Yau Tong means an area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
What part of speech is Yau Tong?
Yau Tong is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Yau Tong?
Yau Tong is pronounced /ˈjaʊ ˈtɔŋ/ (US).

Words near Yau Tong in the dictionary

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  4. Yau Ma Tei
  5. Yau Ma Ti
  6. Yau Tong
  7. Yau Tsim Mong
  8. Yauapery
  9. yauboo
  10. yauboos
  11. Yauch

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