sheung wan
/ʃɜːŋ wɑːn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
name
A former district of Victoria, Hong Kong, United Kingdom.
Example Sentences
- "The British could identify very few ‘village elders’ in the colony. The reason was that the majority of the Chinese in Hong Kong were male immigrants with no village to which to attach themselves. They tended to settle in an area known as Sheung Wan (the Upper Bay) on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island."
- "Newspaper vendor Chung Tang, 74, knows just how bad it can be, working all day at a bus stop in Sheung Wan, a busy neighborhood next to the Central business district where pollution-free trams trundle along metal rails, between the cars and buses, just as they have done for more than 100 years.[…] Tang was referring to a government measure to ban idling engines on streets, especially in densely populated pockets of Hong Kong island, like Sheung Wan, where narrow, poorly ventilated streets help concentrated emissions collect."
- "Police and protesters alike shouted warnings to residents to close their windows and protect themselves from tear gas. But the noxious gas fired around the trendy Sheung Wan neighborhood just west of central Hong Kong seeped into packed residential buildings, hotels and air-conditioning systems."
- "At Mount Zero, a jewel-box-size bookstore in the Sheung Wan district, the owner hosts visits by politically controversial authors."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 上環