sai ying pun
/saɪ jɪŋ puːn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
Example Sentences
- "The two schools at Sai Ying-pʻun suffered severely by their removal[.]"
- "The winter of poor air had also forced my partner, Zamira, and me to relocate from our apartment in Sai Ying Pun, an aging urban district in Western Hong Kong where we had been living since arriving in the city, to a flat in a village house in Mui Wo, a rural town on the coast of Lantau Island."
- "Voters wait in line outside a polling station in the Sai Ying Pun district of Hong Kong."
- "Sage Ip, a 29-year-old flight attendant who cast her ballot on Sunday in the Sai Ying Pun district, said she voted in the primary because she was worried that she would never get a chance to do so again. “Voting is something that is still within our capacity. We can’t express ourselves at protests anymore.”"
- "Hong Kong’s health department told a briefing that around 47 cases were related to the outbreak at Ursus Fitness, a gym in the city’s trendy Sai Ying Pun district, which is popular with expatriate lawyers, bankers and hedge fund executives."
- "Following the outbreak at the Ursus Fitness gym in Sai Ying Pun, the government announced two ambush lockdowns on Saturday, and another on Sunday, in the Mid-Levels district."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 西營盤
Inflected Forms
Sei Ying Poon (alternative)
Sei-ying-poon (alternative)
Sai Ying Poon (alternative)
Sy-ing-poon (alternative)