Tsuen Wan

English

Alternative forms
  • (obsolete) Tsun Wan, Tsin Wan, Ts'ün Wán

Etymology

From Cantonese 荃灣／荃湾 (cyun4 waan1).

Proper noun

Tsuen Wan

  1. An area and town in Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
  2. A district of Hong Kong.
    • 2019 October 1, Ives, Mike, “Hong Kong Police Shoot a Protester, 18, With a Live Bullet for the First Time”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-01, Asia Pacific‎:
      The protester was shot in the Tsuen Wan district of northern Hong Kong. Tsuen Wan is a working-class area near Hong Kong’s border with the Chinese mainland, miles from the city’s gleaming financial district.

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