Sheung Wan

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
    — 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.
  2. A former district of Victoria, Hong Kong, United Kingdom. historical

词源

From Cantonese 上環 /上环 (soeng⁶ waan⁴), when the initial of the first syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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