Kwun Tong

English

Alternative forms
  • Kwuntong

Etymology

From Cantonese 官塘 (gun1 tong4) or an earlier equivalent.

Proper noun

Kwun Tong

  1. An area in Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
  2. A district of Hong Kong.
    • 2019 August 24, Zhong, Raymond; Steven Lee Myers, “Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas as Protests Turn Violent”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-24, Asia Pacific‎:
      The clashes in the district of Kwun Tong, in eastern Kowloon, were a marked departure from the peaceful, if sometimes tense, gatherings that had taken place over much of the last two weeks.

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