san po kong
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Example Sentences
- "Sanpokong was airport land until about 1960: the industrial area at Kwuntong and part of that at Cheungshawan were reclaimed only in the 1950s."
- "Before Hong Kong's new airport is completed, you may also have to put up with the roar of airplane engines in Kowloon City, where Lion Rock Road is a center for cheap sportswear and Angus International specializes in silk. Good silk from China can also be found in the airport area at Citi Garments and other outlets in the slummy San Po Kong."
- "In the image presented was the look of a district: that of the industrial quarter in Hong Kong called San Po Kong.[…] Massive sliding doors characterised these fearsome shops opening to the street. It was the pattern too with the other manufacturing premises continuing on along the narrow industrial thoroughfares of San Po Kong."
- "The electric car burst into flames 30 minutes after being parked in the city’s San Po Kong district on Sunday, the newspaper said, with three explosions seen on CCTV footage."
- "Bleak House ended up in San Po Kong, an industrial neighbourhood in Kowloon northeast of Kowloon City, quite simply because the right space became available at the right price at the right time."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 新蒲崗
Inflected Forms
Sanpokong (alternative)