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Mong Kok
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Mongkok
English
,+ District
Alternative forms
en Mongkok
Etymology
From en yue 芒角.en 1955 Chan Yeung Kwong Everybody's Cantonese Fourth https://archive.org/details/everybodyscanton00chan/ Kowloon Chung Yuen Printing Press 4100478 235 https://archive.org/details/everybodyscanton00chan/page/235/ Kowloon DistrictsMongkok zh 望角 Mông kòk
Pronunciation
en /ˌmɒŋˈkɒk/ /ˈmɒŋˌkɒk/ 1
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Mong Kok.wav Southern England
Proper noun
1
en area district/Yau Tsim Mong region/Kowloon sar/Hong Kong.
en 1988 Sunset Oriental Travel Guide https://archive.org/details/orienttravelguid0000unse/ Lane Publishing Co. Menlo Park, California 0-376-06634-2 88-80790 19124196 2068589M 106 https://archive.org/details/orienttravelguid0000unse/page/106/ About a 10-minute taxi ride (or 2-minute Mass Transit Railway trip) north from the Star Ferry Pier, Jordan Road marks Yau Ma Tei's southern boundary. Sandwiched between Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok, it is believed to be one of the first Kowloon districts developed by the British in the 1860s.
en 2007 Hong Kong 2006 https://archive.org/details/hongkong20060000unse/ Information Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government 978-962-02-0368-8 742571545 332 https://archive.org/details/hongkong20060000unse/page/332/ The department continued to plan and build fire stations and ambulance depots to cope with the city's growing development and service needs and to adhere to the Government's policy of providing the fastest response possible to emergencies. During the year, a new fire station in Kowloon Tong and two ambulance depots in Mong Kok and Kwai Chung were commissioned.
en JUNE 3, 2020 James Pomfret; Scott Murdoch Police pepper spray Hong Kongers defying ban to mark Tiananmen https://web.archive.org/web/20200605191752/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tiananmen-hongkong-idUSKBN23A3GU 05 June 2020 w:Reuters World News Scuffles broke out briefly in the working-class Mong Kok area where hundreds had gathered and some demonstrators tried to set up roadblocks with metal barriers, prompting officers to use spray to disperse them, according to Reuters witnesses.[...]“We are afraid this will be the last time we can have a ceremony but Hong Kongers will always remember what happened on June 4,” said Brenda Hui, 24, in Mong Kok, with a white battery-illuminated umbrella that read “Never Forget June 4.”
en
en historical en w:Mong Kok District district sar/Hong Kong.
Synonyms
initialism en MK
Derived terms
en Yau Tsim Mong
Translations
area in Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 旺角 wong6 gok3, yue 望角 mong6 gok3 dated
Mandarin: cmn 旺角 Wàngjiǎo, cmn 望角 Wàngjiǎo dated
Korean: ko ^왕자오
Marathi: mr मोंग कोक
Russian: ru Ванцзя́о m, ru Монгго́к m
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