Mong Kok

See also: Mongkok

English

Alternative forms

• Mongkok

Etymology

From Cantonese 芒角 (mong⁴ gok³).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɒŋˈkɒk/, /ˈmɒŋˌkɒk/

Proper noun

Mong Kok

1. An area in Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   • 1988, Sunset Oriental Travel Guide‎^[2], Menlo Park, California: Lane Publishing Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 106:

     About a 10-minute taxi ride (or 2-minute Mass Transit Railway trip) north from the Star Ferry Pier, Jordan Road marks Yau Ma Tei's southern boundary. Sandwiched between Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok, it is believed to be one of the first Kowloon districts developed by the British in the 1860s.

   • 2007, Hong Kong 2006‎^[3], Information Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332:

     The department continued to plan and build fire stations and ambulance depots to cope with the city's growing development and service needs and to adhere to the Government's policy of providing the fastest response possible to emergencies. During the year, a new fire station in Kowloon Tong and two ambulance depots in Mong Kok and Kwai Chung were commissioned.

   • 2020 June 3, James Pomfret, Scott Murdoch, “Police pepper spray Hong Kongers defying ban to mark Tiananmen”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 05 June 2020, World News:

     Scuffles broke out briefly in the working-class Mong Kok area where hundreds had gathered and some demonstrators tried to set up roadblocks with metal barriers, prompting officers to use spray to disperse them, according to Reuters witnesses.[...]
     “We are afraid this will be the last time we can have a ceremony but Hong Kongers will always remember what happened on June 4,” said Brenda Hui, 24, in Mong Kok, with a white battery-illuminated umbrella that read “Never Forget June 4.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mong Kok.
2. (historical) Mong Kok District (a district of Hong Kong).

Synonyms

• (initialism) MK

Derived terms

• Yau Tsim Mong

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 旺角 (wong⁶ gok³), 望角 (mong⁶ gok³) (dated)

  Mandarin: 旺角 (zh) (Wàngjiǎo), 望角 (Wàngjiǎo) (dated)

• Korean: 왕자오 (Wangjao)
• Russian: Ванцзя́о m (Vanczjáo), Монгго́к m (Monggók)