Kowloon en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /kaʊˈluːn/
- (Southern-England) audio
- kō′lo͞on′
- kou′lo͞on′
Etymology
From Cantonese 九龍 /九龙 (gau² lung⁴, literally “nine dragons”), named after its eight mountains and the Chinese emperor Zhao Bing (1272–1279).
Meanings
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A region, peninsula, and urban area of Hong Kong.
Holonyms: HKSAR, HK (region) < PRC, People's Republic of China, China
Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the gate. Two cars suspected of being those used in the attacks were later found burning in nearby areas of Kowloon.
2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022, Sinosphere:Several protesters took up positions on the rooftops of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, armed with bows and arrows, as unrest spread across the territory's central Kowloon district.
2019 November 17, “Hong Kong protesters fend off police with arrows, petrol bombs as unrest spreads”, in France 24, sourced from Reuters, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2019, Asia / Pacific:Hong Kong authorities evacuated at least 3,400 people from buildings after a fire broke out in a warehouse in the city's Kowloon district on Friday.
2023 March 24, “Hong Kong warehouse fire forces thousands to evacuate”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023, Society:By the late 1930's some modern factories, built by outside interests and producing such goods as bricks, beer, and chinaware for export abroad, had already appeared in Tsuen Wan, a market town near Kowloon.
1968, Jack M. Potter, “The Setting”, in Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:
Deriveds
Kowloon Tong · Kowloon Bay · Kowloonside · Kowloon Tsai
Relateds
Kln · New Territories · Hong Kong Island · HK · NT
Translations (19)
th เกาลูน (area of Hong Kong) · ja 九龍 (area of Hong Kong) · yue 九龍半島 /九龙半岛 (peninsula of Hong Kong) · pl Koulun (area of Hong Kong) · cmn 九龍半島 /九龙半岛 (peninsula of Hong Kong) · ja カオルーン (area of Hong Kong) · ru Коулу́н (area of Hong Kong) · ja クーロン (area of Hong Kong) · hak 九龍 /九龙 (area of Hong Kong) · ja カウロン (area of Hong Kong) · pl Koulun (peninsula of Hong Kong) · vi Cửu Long (area of Hong Kong) · cmn 九龍 /九龙 (area of Hong Kong) · ru Цзюлу́н (area of Hong Kong) · ko 주룽 (area of Hong Kong) · ja ガウロン (area of Hong Kong) · nan-hbl 九龍 /九龙 (area of Hong Kong) · ja ジウロン (area of Hong Kong) · yue 九龍 /九龙 (area of Hong Kong)