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Yaumatei

Yaumatei is the alternative form of Yau Ma Tei.

Meaning of Yau Ma Tei

Proper noun

Yau Ma Tei

  1. An area of Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    • The contract has been let for the construction of a breakwater to provide a harbor of refuge for Hongkong’s shipping. This breakwater will extend 3 300 feet from a point near the Asiatic Petroleum Co.’s tanks at Tai-Kok-Tsui to a point opposite the Yau-ma-tei police station with an opening at one...[1910 November, “Hongkong's Typhoon Shelter”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume VII, number 6, →OCLC, page 216, column 1
    Synonyms:
    YMT

Questions about Yaumatei

What is Yaumatei the alternative form of?
Yaumatei is the alternative form of Yau Ma Tei.

Words near Yaumatei in the dictionary

  1. yaul
  2. yauld
  3. yaulder
  4. yauldest
  5. yauls
  6. Yaumatei
  7. Yaumati
  8. Yaun
  9. Yauna
  10. Yauns
  11. yaup

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yaumatei (page history and authors); Yau Ma Tei (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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