Meanings
- An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
A rehabus collided with a double-decker bus, injuring at least 14 people in Sau Mau Ping on Tuesday afternoon.
2023 December 5, “14 people were injured in a two-vehicle collision in Sau Mau Ping”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2023, Local4 more examples
Mr Wong, 80, who witnessed the building of the temples - Tai Sing Temple, the Temple of Guan Yin and the Shing Wong Temple - said the location on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping, Kwun Tong, was decided by the gods.
2006 March 20, Andy Cheng, “Deities have given 40 years of good advice and healing”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2015, Hong KongThere can be few more ghastly deaths than to suffocate under a mudslide or be swept over the balcony into the abyss below when your block of flats suddenly topples over like a house of cards. Both happened that night. Police said 78 squatter huts were buried at Sau Mau Ping.
2007 December, Kevin Sinclair, “Top Ten: Stories”, in Tell Me a Story: Forty Years Newspapering in Hong Kong and China, SCMP Book Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68The erection of such new temples and statues can be seen as the manipulation of mythological material to accommodate the economic and political goals of the current government. For example, an event much touted on tourist sites on the Internet is a ritual performed at the temples at Sau Mau Ping in Kowloon, Hong Kong in honor of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, the subject of a reading in this chapter.
2017, Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths, 4th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 137More than 60 prosecutions have been brought by Hong Kong’s Labour Department against the contractor, subcontractors and individuals involved in a fatal crane collapse that occurred at a building site in Sau Mau Ping last September. Three were killed and six were injured in the incident.
2023 March 7, Lea Mok, “Contractor among 67 prosecutions over Hong Kong construction site crane collapse that killed 3”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024, Hong KongSynonyms: So Mo Ping, So Mau Ping
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounAn area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Origin
- Cantonese秀茂坪
- EnglishSau Mau Ping
From Cantonese 秀茂坪 (sau³ mau⁶ ping⁴).
More words from Cantonese
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 秀茂坪
- 秀茂坪 (sau³ mau⁶ ping⁴)area in Hong Kong
Chinese Mandarin 秀茂坪
- 秀茂坪 (Xiùmàopíng)area in Hong Kong
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Sau Mau Ping. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sau%20Mau%20Ping
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