Cheung Chau

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 長洲／长洲 (coeng4 zau1).

Proper noun

Cheung Chau

  1. An island in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 2019 November 19, Sebastian Modak, “We Put Hong Kong on the 52 Places to Go List. Things Got Complicated.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 November 2019, Travel‎:
      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.
  2. A market town of Cheung Chau Rural Committee, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
  3. A rural committee in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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