Tuen Mun

proper noun

A district of Hong Kong.

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Castle Peak

Meanings

proper noun
  1. An area and town in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong

    Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has alerted police after two men filmed themselves on top of a moving train in Tuen Mun, a stunt known as train surfing.

    2023 January 10, Hillary Leung, “Hong Kong police alerted over video of two men ‘surfing’ roof of moving MTR train”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2024, Hong Kong
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    In accommodating sites at Tuen Mun (Castle Peak) for about 500,000 people as a part of the government’s new housing requirements, it immediately became apparent that the overall target population for the town as a whole was likely to approach over one million (similar to that of the earlier Tsuen Wan scheme).

    1989, Roger Bristow, “Strategic Planning and the New Towns”, in Hong Kong's New Towns: A Selective Review, Hong Kong; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87

    Last weekend, thousands of protesters rallied in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Tuen Mun against a group of middle-aged mainland women who they accused of causing a disturbance in the local park with loud singing and provocative dancing.

    2019 July 13, Amy Qin, Ezra Cheung, “Hong Kong Protest Against Mainland Chinese Traders Turns Violent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2019, ASIA PACIFIC

    Hong Kong police said they had detained two foreign men during what police there call a "dispersal operation" against a group of demonstrators gathered in Tuen Mun, Reuters reported.

    2019 November 15, Melissa Van Brunnersum, “Two German citizens detained in Hong Kong”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2019, News
  2. A rural committee in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Synonyms & antonyms

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Castle Peak

Origin

  1. Cantonese屯門
  2. EnglishTuen Mun

From Cantonese 屯門 (tyun⁴ mun⁴).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 屯門區 /屯门区, 屯門 /屯门
  • 屯門區 /屯门区 (tyun⁴ mun⁴ keoi¹)district of Hong Kong
  • 屯門 /屯门 (tyun⁴ mun⁴)area in Hong Kong
  • 屯門鄉事委員會 /屯门乡事委员会rural committee
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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