Kowloon

English Etymology From en yue 九龍 nine dragons, named after its eight mountains and the Chinese emperor Zhao Bing (1272–1279). Pronunciation en /kaʊˈluːn/ kou′lo͞on′ kō′lo͞on′Kowloon 978 1 Kowloon (kou′lo͞on′, kō′lo͞on′), en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kowloon.wav Southern England Proper noun en Q239143 en region/peninsula/and/urban area sar/Hong Kong. en Kln<id:Q239143><qq:symbol> en HKSAR<id:Q8646> HK<id:Q8646><qq:region> < PRC<id:Q148> People's Republic of China<id:Q148> China#Noun en Hong Kong Island<id:Q19483> HK<id:Q19483><qq:island> ; New Territories<id:Q596660> NT<id:Q596660> en 1968 Jack M. Potter The Setting Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village https://archive.org/details/capitalismchines00pott/ University of California Press 68-10688 258860 36 https://archive.org/details/capitalismchines00pott/page/36/ 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. en JANUARY 12, 2015 Austin Ramzy Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20220815230100/https://archive.nytimes.com/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/firebombs-thrown-at-jimmy-lais-home-and-company-in-hong-kong/ 0362-4331 1645522 Sinosphere 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. en 11/17/2019 Hong Kong protesters fend off police with arrows, petrol bombs as unrest spreads w:France 24 https://web.archive.org/web/20191117201124/https://www.france24.com/en/20191117-campus-protesters-fend-off-police-with-arrows-petrol-bombs-as-hong-kong-unrest-spreads November 17, 2019 https://www.france24.com/en/20191117-campus-protesters-fend-off-police-with-arrows-petrol-bombs-as-hong-kong-unrest-spreads Reuters Asia / Pacific 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. en 03/24/2023 Hong Kong warehouse fire forces thousands to evacuate https://web.archive.org/web/20230324153646/https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-warehouse-fire-forces-thousands-to-evacuate/a-65108862 24 March 2023 https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-warehouse-fire-forces-thousands-to-evacuate/a-65108862 w:Deutsche Welle Society 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. Derived terms en Kowloon Bay Kowloon Tong Kowloon Tsai Kowloonside Translations area of Hong Kong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 九龍 Hakka: hak 九龍 Kiú-liùng Hokkien: nan-hbl 九龍 Kiú-liông Mandarin: cmn 九龍 Jiǔlǒng Japanese: ja 九龍 きゅうりゅう, Kyūryū, ja カオルーン Kaorūn, ja クーロン Kūron, ja ガウロン Gauron, ja ジウロン Jiuron, ja カウロン Kauron Korean: ko ^주룽 Polish: pl Koulun m-in Russian: ru Коулу́н m, ru Цзюлу́н m Thai: th เกาลูน kao-lun Vietnamese: vi Cửu Long peninsula of Hong Kong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 九龍半島 Mandarin: cmn 九龍半島 Polish: pl Koulun m-in References Further reading Kowloon