kowloon tsai
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An area of Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Example Sentences
- "Two children, brother and sister, died in the Kowloon Tsai fire last night."
- "The So Uk people were said to be related to the So families of Kowloon Tsai, which may explain why they alone among the Cheung Sha Wan villages were involved."
- "Yonghua was founded in 1947 by Li Zuyong with assistance from Zhang Shankun to make Mandarin films in Hong Kong and was its first large-scale private enterprise film company; after creative differences about running the company, Zhang left in 1948; that same year, the company organized an artistic committee. The studio, first located at Kowloon Tsai, was managed by Lu Yuanliang, and was the largest and most modernized, state-of-the-art, in the late 1940s and early 1950s."
- "Yau Yat Chuen’s stylish villas overlooked the shacks of Tai Hang Tung; to the east, a squatter camp in Kowloon Tsai was described as “intolerable” by British Labour Party MPs who visited in 1969. Shanty towns were prone to fire and both Kowloon Tsai and Tai Hang Tung eventually burned to the ground, their residents given shelter in resettlement estates."
- "When the Hong Kong government developed the then-barren area of Kowloon Tsai into a residential area in the early 1950s, the streets were also named after English counties, such as Oxford Road (牛津道), Cambridge Road (劍橋道), and Durham Road (對衡道)."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 九龍仔
Synonyms
Kau Lung Tsai
small Kowloon