Meanings
- An area and village in Shau Kei Wan, Eastern district, Hong Kong.
At 2.24 pm, a boar was found severely wounded in the westward direction of the Island Eastern Corridor near the roads of A Kung Ngam.
2024 May 12, “Boar fatally struck by a taxi at Shau Kei Wan”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 12 May 2024, Local3 more examples
From late November through the end of the year, gongs, drums, and firecrackers sounded continuously, from the Tam Kung Temple at A Kung Ngam in the north to the Man Mo Temple on Hollywood Road and the Goddess of Mercy Temple on Mount Taiping Street in the west, from the Temple of Mazu at Stanley in the south to Dawang Temple on Wan Chai Road in the east.
2005, Shu-ching Shih, chapter 8, in Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Howard Goldblatt, transl., City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 41At the A Kung Ngam village in Shau Kei Wan, residents on Wednesday told the Post about the pain they felt over losing the woman, 58, who had lived in the area all her life.
2023 April 19, Harvey Kong, “Rural Hong Kong village in shock over death of neighbour who was found unconscious in public hospital toilet, recall fond memories”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023, Health & EnvironmentThe Lands Department today (March 20) posted land resumption notices in accordance with section 4 of the Lands Resumption Ordinance (Chapter 124) and section 14 of the Roads (Works, Use and Compensation) Ordinance (Chapter 370) for the implementation of public housing development at A Kung Ngam Village, Shau Kei Wan.
2025 March 20, “Government posts land resumption notices for public housing development at A Kung Ngam Village, Shau Kei Wan”, in The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025
Origin
- Cantonese阿公岩
- EnglishA Kung Ngam
From Cantonese 阿公岩 (aa³ gung¹ ngaam⁴).
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Chinese Cantonese 阿公岩
- 阿公岩 (aa³ gung¹ ngaam⁴)area in Hong Kong
Chinese Mandarin 阿公岩
- 阿公岩 (Āgōngyán)area in Hong Kong
Cite this entry
A Kung Ngam. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/A%20Kung%20Ngam
“A Kung Ngam.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/A%20Kung%20Ngam. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “A Kung Ngam,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/A%20Kung%20Ngam.
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