The collection
地名
Hong Kong Names
dei6 meng2
What Hong Kong's place names mean, and what they were before.
美孚 mei5 fu1
Gracious confidence, or an oil company
The MTR station whose name reads like a virtue and is actually a brand of American kerosene.
旺角 wong6 gok3The corner that got promoted
Mong Kok was named for a weed. Then somebody quietly upgraded it, and the English never caught up.
調景嶺 tiu4 ging2 leng5The ridge that was renamed for luck
Everyone tells the same story about this name. Here is the story, and here is the part of it that can actually be shown.
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