Diamond Hill
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of Cantonese 鑽石山/钻石山 (zyun3 sek6 saan1, literally “stone-mining hill”).
Proper noun[edit]
- 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.