ngau chi wan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Example Sentences
- "Arising from a limited design competition, this winning scheme for residential accommodation at Ngau Chi Wan is located on a narrow strip of sloping land in Kowloon, Hong Kong."
- "With hindsight, the decision of Mildred and then her children to escape to Hong Kong was a no-brainer.[…] They settled in a sordid shantytown known as Ngau Chi Wan, alongside thousands of other mainlanders."
- "It’s late afternoon in Bo Fuk, a neighbourhood cha chaan teng in the East Kowloon village of Ngau Chi Wan, and a crowd of regulars has assembled for tea. “We’ve been coming here for about 10 years,” says a man sitting with his son. Why? He laughs. “It’s cheap!”"
- "At the Wan Luen Home for Elderly (Yen Chow Street) in Sham Shui Po – where at least four residents were earlier infected – employees who tested positive using rapid antigen tests waited for up to six days to be sent to a hospital, HK01 reported. Residents at Choi Wan Elderly Home in Ngau Chi Wan also experienced similar delays."
Etymology
From Cantonese 牛池灣 /牛池湾 (ngau⁴ ci⁴ waan¹).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 牛池灣
Inflected Forms
Ngauchiwan (alternative)
Ngau Shi Wan (alternative)
Ngaushiwan (alternative)