Sham Shui Po

• Shamshuipo

From Cantonese 深水埗 (sam¹ seoi² bou^6-2).[1]

Sham Shui Po

1. An area in Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   • [1900, Ball, J. Dyer, “Railways”, in Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China‎, Third edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 506:

     Another proposal some years ago was for a line to be constructed from Canton to Sham-shui-po near the Cosmopolitan Docks in British territory, on the mainland opposite Hongkong.]

   • 2019 August 11, Ives, Mike, “Hong Kong Protesters Gather Amid Fears of Mob Violence”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-11‎:

     The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit.

   • 2021 August 18, Cobaj, Lee, “Best things to do in Hong Kong”, in The Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-25‎:

     Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints.

   • 2022 September 12, Yu, Theodora; Louise Delmotte, “Climate change in Hong Kong worsens housing crisis for city’s poor”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-12, World‎:

     On Au’s rooftop in the gentrifying neighborhood of Sham Shui Po, the metal hut traps heat inside the 300-square-foot space.

2. A district of Hong Kong.

• (area in Hong Kong): (initialism) SSP