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Ma On Shan
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English
Etymology
From en yue 馬鞍山//.
Pronunciation
mäʹônʹ sänʹen 1952 Maon Shan Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1144 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1144/ 3
Proper noun
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en area/and/town district/Sha Tin region/New Territories sar/Hong Kong.
en October 11, 2019 Mike Ives At Hong Kong Protests, Art That Imitates Life w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20191011141039/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/world/asia/hong-kong-protest-art.html October 11, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/world/asia/hong-kong-protest-art.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific The poster below, on a wall in the Ma On Shan district in northeastern Hong Kong, seems to liken front line protesters to the protagonists of a battle scene in a Renaissance oil painting.
en 5 March 2026 Brian Wong Hong Kong man denies intent to kill girlfriend, says ‘she was an alien’ w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20260305073501/https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3345542/hong-kong-man-denies-intent-kill-girlfriend-says-she-was-alien https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3345542/hong-kong-man-denies-intent-kill-girlfriend-says-she-was-alien March 05, 2026 1563-9371 648902513 Hong Kong / Law and Crime A High Court jury of four men and three women heard on Thursday that Tang Lung-fai, 56, admitted causing the death of Fok Sin-yee, 38, during a scuffle at their home in Mui Tsz Lam village, Ma On Shan, on or about April 14, 2022.
en peak district/Sha Tin region/New Territories sar/Hong Kong.
en 1995 Edward Stokes Sai Kung Peninsula Hong Kong's Wild Places: An Environmental Exploration https://archive.org/details/hongkongswildpla0000stok/ w:Oxford University Press 0-19-586601-0 95-24786 32970744 95 https://archive.org/details/hongkongswildpla0000stok/page/95/ 1 The next morning we looked over to where we had been the day before: on Ma On Shan’s buttress-like spurs and its 702-metre summit. The saddle between the two highest points, for which Ma On Shan (Horse Saddle Mountain) is named, stood out.
en village of rural committee/Sha Tin district/Sha Tin region/New Territories sar/Hong Kong.
Synonyms
village en Ma On Shan Tsuen
Translations
area in Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 馬鞍山
peak in Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 馬鞍山
village in Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 馬鞍山村
See also
en Ma'anshan
References
Further reading
Ma On Shan