Diamond Hill

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Etymology

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Calque of Cantonese 鑽石山钻石山 (zyun3 sek6 saan1, literally stone-mining hill).

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Diamond Hill

  1. An area in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.
    • 2010 February 24, Julie Makinen, “A Green and Gold Gem in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 November 2023, In Transit‎[2]:
      Hong Kong’s Diamond Hill was once home to a mix of gamblers, thugs and movie stars. Over the last 20 years, the government cleared away much of the squalor (and history) to make way for a subway stop, generic high-rise housing developments and the cacophonous Hollywood Plaza shopping center.
    • 2023 June 25, Lea Mok, “Series of knife attacks underscores mental health shortcomings in ‘happy Hong Kong’”, in Hong Kong Free Press[3], archived from the original on 25 June 2023, Hong Kong:
      After a brutal knife attack killed two women at a mall in Diamond Hill this month, Hong Kong police held a press conference which spelt out the shockingly indiscriminate nature of the assault.

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