Cheung Sha Wan

proper noun

An area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

OriginCantonese 長沙灣 /长沙湾 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. An area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

    A government-run affordable-housing development in Hong Kong’s Cheung Sha Wan district. Critics of the city’s government say officials want to avoid building more.

    2019 July 22, Alexandra Stevenson, Jin Wu, “Tiny Apartments and Punishing Work Hours: The Economic Roots of Hong Kong’s Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2019, Asia Pacific
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    Lam was one of dozens of patients lying in the parking lot of Caritas on Thursday, after there was no more room inside the hospital that serves 400,000 people in the working-class district of Cheung Sha Wan on the Kowloon peninsula. Temperatures dipped to 15 degrees Celsius (59 Fahrenheit) amid some rain.

    2022 February 18, James Pomfret, Joyce Zhou, “Hong Kong working-class district reels as COVID runs rampant”, in Anne Marie Roantree, Karishma Singh, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2022, Asia Pacific

    After all, Hong Kong’s builders have already started resorting to price cuts to boost their sales. Earlier this month, CK Asset Holdings Ltd. slashed its offerings by as much as 18% at Seaside Sonata in Cheung Sha Wan.

    2023 February 22, Shuli Ren, “Hong Kong’s Penthouses Face China’s ‘Common Prosperity’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2023, Business

    Hong Kong authorities have rejected an NGO’s application to open a homeless shelter in Cheung Sha Wan, just days after opposition from lawmakers, district councillors, and residents.

    2025 May 20, James Lee, “Hong Kong gov’t rejects NGO’s plan to open homeless shelter in Cheung Sha Wan following public opposition”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 21 May 2025, Hong Kong

Origin

  1. Cantonese長沙灣 /长沙湾
  2. EnglishCheung Sha Wan

From Cantonese 長沙灣 /长沙湾 (coeng⁴ saa¹ waan¹⁻⁴).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 長沙灣 /长沙湾
  • 長沙灣 /长沙湾area in Hong Kong
Chinese Mandarin 長沙灣 /长沙湾
  • 長沙灣 /长沙湾 (Chángshāwān)area in Hong Kong
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APA

Cheung Sha Wan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cheung%20Sha%20Wan

MLA

“Cheung Sha Wan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cheung%20Sha%20Wan. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Cheung Sha Wan,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cheung%20Sha%20Wan.

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