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Cheung Chau
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English
Etymology
From en yue 長洲.
Pronunciation
en
Proper noun
1
en island district/Islands region/New Territories sar/Hong Kong.
en November 19, 2019 Sebastian Modak We Put Hong Kong on the 52 Places to Go List. Things Got Complicated. w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20191119103854/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/19/travel/52-places-to-go-chongli-china-hong-kong.html 19 November 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/19/travel/52-places-to-go-chongli-china-hong-kong.html 0362-4331 1645522 Travel https://archive.ph/h9weZ One morning, I took the ferry to Cheung Chau, a speck of land southwest of Hong Kong Island. There it was even easier to forget that just six miles away, barricades were being set up in anticipation of a major protest in Mong Kok.
en 16 May 2024 Kyle Lam HKFP Lens: Hong Kong’s bun festival draws crowds to Cheung Chau w:Hong Kong Free Press https://archive.ph/SkVkd https://hongkongfp.com/2024/05/16/hkfp-lens-hong-kongs-bun-festival-draws-crowds-to-cheung-chau/ 17 May 2024 HKFP Lens Hong Kong’s iconic bun festival attracted tens of thousands of visitors to Cheung Chau on Wednesday, a public holiday marking Buddha’s Birthday.
en May 20, 2024 Andrew Genung; Billy H.C. Kwok The race up a Hong Kong tower covered in 40 feet of steamed buns w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240520190248/https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/05/20/hong-kong-cheung-chau-bun-festival-tower-climb/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/05/20/hong-kong-cheung-chau-bun-festival-tower-climb/ May 20, 2024 0190-8286 2269358 Travel https://archive.ph/Fgzsh The first thing crowds saw Wednesday as they poured from the Cheung Chau island ferry onto a wide, waterfront promenade was a temporarily vegetarian McDonald’s. “Adhering to the rituals of the Bun Festival,” a small printed sign read, explaining that the restaurant would temporarily offer a McVeggie burger and products without meat, dairy or eggs.
en market town of rural committee/Cheung Chau district/Islands region/New Territories sar/Hong Kong.
en rural committee district/Islands region/New Territories sar/Hong Kong.
Translations
island
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 長洲
Mandarin: cmn 長洲
market town
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 長洲, yue 長洲墟
Mandarin: cmn 長洲
rural committee
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 長洲鄉事委員會
Mandarin: cmn 長洲
Further reading
Cheung Chau