yau tong
/ˈjaʊ ˈtɔŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.48 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When angry construction workers seeking unpaid wages stormed a site office in Yau Tong in July 2002, their violent clash with the police set alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power."
- "“When people see my work, they can respond because they can really feel it,” she said on a recent evening in Yau Tong, an industrial area in eastern Kowloon. “They feel that they’ve been understood.”"
- "On Wednesday night, police intervened when note posters scuffled with men trying to remove them in Yau Tong, a working class neighborhood on the eastern side of Kowloon, across the harbor from Hong Kong island."
- "Hong Kong saw one of its first protests since Covid-19 restrictions were eased, as a group of environmental activists protested against the illegal operation of a concrete plant in Yau Tong on Saturday."
- "Hong Kong police have arrested a man and seized more than HK$12 million (US$1.53 million) worth of drugs from two industrial building units in Yau Tong suspected to be the manufacturing base for a drug syndicate."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 油塘
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈjaʊ ˈtɔŋ/
- British English: /ˈjaʊ ˈtɒŋ/