Wong Chuk Hang

proper noun

An area of Southern district, Hong Kong.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. An area of Southern district, Hong Kong.

    All police inspectors and constables on first appointment attend basic training courses lasting about 27 weeks at the Police Training School at Wong Chuk Hang, Aberdeen.

    1976 October, Norman L. Dodd, “The Crown Colony of Hong Kong”, in Military Review, volume LVI, number 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 2
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    Mr Blair-Kerr went on to say that the place where the offence occurred was just off Brick Hill, or Wong Chuk Hang, near Aberdeen. The complainant, Chan For-tai, would give evidence that he, his wife, mother and two brothers, set off in their fishing junk about 2 a.m., on January 5 to fish. They sailed south from Aberdeen, then eastwards towards Wong Chuk Hang, and were heading for an island further south, Po Toi. Off Wong Chuk Hang, the junk was stopped by a small sampan, containing four occupants. The Crown's case was that two of them were the accused in the dock.

    1954 April 5, “Sequel To Raid On Aberdeen Fishing Junk”, in China Mail, number 35783, →OCLC, page 10, column 6

    Wong Chuk Hang is a neighbourhood in flux. What began as one of the earliest settlements on Hong Kong Island has gone from a quaint fishing village to a buzzing boat-building community, a manufacturing hub, and eventually a neglected, postindustrial backwater.

    2018 January 6, “How to turn a new MTR station into a gateway to the south”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2024, HKFP Voices

    The police said that officers belonging to the Cyber Security and Technology Crime unit searched an office in the Wong Chuk Hang neighborhood on Friday afternoon on the suspicion that computers at the institute had been hacked, leading to a leak of personal information.

    2020 July 10, Tiffany May, Austin Ramzy, “Hong Kong Police Raid Pollster on Eve of Pro-Democracy Camp Primary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2020

    “Before I cooked the fish it was quite firm, but after I cooked it the texture changed to being like real fish,” Leung said of the culinary experiment that took place in the gritty Wong Chuk Hang neighbourhood late last year.

    2021 January 28, Marianne Bray, “Hong Kong cooks up lab-grown fish as appetite for 'clean meat' rises”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2021, APAC

    The female officer, who was attached to the patrol subunit at Central Police Station, was discovered cheating during the written test at the Police College in Wong Chuk Hang on Tuesday, a source on Wednesday said.

    2022 August 18, Clifford Lo, Danny Mok, “Hong Kong police investigating after daughter of ex-assistant commissioner allegedly cheated on force exam”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2022, Law and Crime

Origin

  1. Cantonese黃竹坑 /黄竹坑
  2. EnglishWong Chuk Hang

From Cantonese 黃竹坑 /黄竹坑 (wong⁴ zuk¹ haang¹).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 黃竹坑 /黄竹坑
  • 黃竹坑 /黄竹坑 (wong⁴ zuk¹ haang¹)area in Hong Kong
Chinese Mandarin 黃竹坑 /黄竹坑
  • 黃竹坑 /黄竹坑 (Huángzhúkēng)area in Hong Kong
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APA

Wong Chuk Hang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wong%20Chuk%20Hang

MLA

“Wong Chuk Hang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wong%20Chuk%20Hang. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Wong Chuk Hang,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wong%20Chuk%20Hang.

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