Tsz Wan Shan

proper noun

An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

    Shum has been living alone in a property in Tsz Wan Shan following her husband’s death and her children’s marriages.

    2015 June 19, Paul Benedict Lee, “Widow sues son over property ownership”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2024, Hong Kong, Law & Crime
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    The exceptional vitality of Mongkok, the capital city of all this vast industrial territory, owes something—perhaps very much—to the comparative deprivation of Tsz Wan Shan.

    1977, Frank Leeming, “Time, Place and Community in Hong Kong”, in Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City (East Asian Social Science Monographs), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7

    In Hong Kong, torrential rain associated with Brenda resulted in 100 landslides and 118 floods. In Tsz Wan Shan, more than 20 tons of mud and rocks crashed down a hillside and struck three squatter huts, leaving two people dead.

    1989 October, November, and December, “North Pacific Weather Log April, May and June 1989”, in Mariners Weather Log, volume 33, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55, column 3

    He suffered hand injuries and was treated by an ambulance crew at the scene in Hong Kong's Tsz Wan Shan district on Saturday, the newspaper said.

    2004 August 2, “World News Quick Take”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2004, World News, page 7

    One of the areas in Hong Kong most profoundly impacted by the city’s third wave of coronavirus is Tsz Wan Shan. The usually bustling streets of the working-class neighbourhood in Kowloon now resemble a ghost town. Tsz Wan Shan has been the epicentre of a recent cluster of Covid-19 cases.

    2020 August 18, “Empty spaces in Tsz Wan Shan amid Hong Kong’s third wave of coronavirus”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2021

Origin

  1. Cantonese慈雲山
  2. EnglishTsz Wan Shan

From Cantonese 慈雲山 (ci⁴ wan⁴ saan¹).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 慈雲山 /慈云山
  • 慈雲山 /慈云山 (ci⁴ wan⁴ saan¹)area in Hong Kong
Chinese Mandarin 慈雲山 /慈云山
  • 慈雲山 /慈云山 (Cíyúnshān)area in Hong Kong
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APA

Tsz Wan Shan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tsz%20Wan%20Shan

MLA

“Tsz Wan Shan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tsz%20Wan%20Shan. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tsz Wan Shan,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tsz%20Wan%20Shan.

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