Mui Wo

proper noun

A town in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A town in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

    At the top of the fourth ridge the whole of Silvermine Bay (Mui Wo) opened up with its arc of white sand and wooden sampans bobbing near the shore.

    1988 April 16, David Yeadon, “HONG KONG MEMORIES IN A MIST THE SERENE PLEASURES OF THE OUT ISLANDS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2024
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    However, the Mongol armies continued to fight their way southwards and towards the end of 1276 the imperial entourage was forced to travel by boat to Guangdong to seek refuge and make a new base. The following year Di Zheng established his travelling court at Mui Wo (Silvermine Bay) on Lantau, moving two months later to Guan-fu Chang in the area of the present Kowloon City.

    1991, Sally Rodwell, “Conquest by the Chinese: From the Han to the Qing Dynasty”, in Historic Hong Kong: A Visitor's Guide, Hong Kong: Odyssey Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26

    'After waiting for the government for the past several years, we've decided to take charge and help the area ourselves by organising more events to highlight the beauty of Mui Wo,' Wong says. Wan Tung-yat, who heads the South Lantao Rural Committee, says: 'We've got to do this ourselves.'

    2009 November 6, Ben Sin, “Village voices”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2024

    The winter of poor air had also forced my partner, Zamira, and me to relocate from our apartment in Sai Ying Pun, an aging urban district in Western Hong Kong where we had been living since arriving in the city, to a flat in a village house in Mui Wo, a rural town on the coast of Lantau Island.

    2012, Timothy Choy, “Air's Substantiations”, in Kaushik Sunder Rajan, editor, Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets, Duke University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123

    Residents of Mui Wo on Lantau Island took to Silvermine Bay Beach on Sunday to protest land reclamation plans, saying that the project will damage the environment and line the pockets of developers.[…] At 6am on Sunday, 17 Mui Wo residents gathered on the beach and held up a banner reading: “Oppose the East Lantau Metropolis plan.” A joint demonstration was also held the same day on Lamma Island and Sai Wan, in support of Mui Wo residents.

    2018 October 22, Jennifer Creery, “In Pictures: Mui Wo residents take to the beach in protest of Lantau reclamation plan”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2024, Hong Kong

    To reach Mui Wo, a small town on Lantau Island, you take a ferry from central Hong Kong, and after a 30-minute ride arrive at a small square with a car park and bus stops blackened by fumes.

    2019 November 22, Ilaria Maria Sala, “After the Protests: How Will Hong Kong Vote?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2019, Opinion
  2. A rural committee in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Origin

  1. Cantonese梅窩 /梅窝
  2. EnglishMui Wo

From Cantonese 梅窩 /梅窝 (mui⁴ wo¹).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 梅窩鄉事委員會 /梅窝乡事委员会, 梅窩 /梅窝
  • 梅窩鄉事委員會 /梅窝乡事委员会rural committee
  • 梅窩 /梅窝 (mui⁴ wo¹)town in Hong Kong
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Mui Wo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mui%20Wo

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“Mui Wo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mui%20Wo. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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