Cheung Chau

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 長洲 / 长洲 (coeng⁴ zau¹).

Proper noun

Cheung Chau

1. An island in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • 2019 November 19, Sebastian Modak, “We Put Hong Kong on the 52 Places to Go List. Things Got Complicated.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 November 2019, Travel‎^[2]:

     One morning, I took the ferry to Cheung Chau, a speck of land southwest of Hong Kong Island. There it was even easier to forget that just six miles away, barricades were being set up in anticipation of a major protest in Mong Kok.

   • 2024 May 20, Andrew Genung, Billy H.C. Kwok, “The race up a Hong Kong tower covered in 40 feet of steamed buns”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 20, 2024, Travel‎^[4]:

     The first thing crowds saw Wednesday as they poured from the Cheung Chau island ferry onto a wide, waterfront promenade was a temporarily vegetarian McDonald’s. “Adhering to the rituals of the Bun Festival,” a small printed sign read, explaining that the restaurant would temporarily offer a McVeggie burger and products without meat, dairy or eggs.

2. A market town of Cheung Chau Rural Committee, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
3. A rural committee in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Translations

island

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 長洲 / 长洲 (coeng⁴ zau¹)

market town

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 長洲 / 长洲 (coeng⁴ zau¹), 長洲墟 / 长洲墟 (coeng⁴ zau¹ heoi¹)

rural committee

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 長洲鄉事委員會 / 长洲乡事委员会 (coeng⁴ zau¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui^6-2)

Further reading

• Cheung Chau at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.