cheung chau
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An island of Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
name
A market town of Cheung Chau Rural Committee, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Hong Kong’s iconic bun festival attracted tens of thousands of visitors to Cheung Chau on Wednesday, a public holiday marking Buddha’s Birthday."
- "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."
Etymology
From Cantonese 長洲 /长洲 (coeng⁴ zau¹).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 長洲