Mei Foo
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Cantonese 美孚 (mei5 fu1). The area previously was a petroleum storage facility owned by English Mobil, and therefore indirectly named after the company.
Proper noun
[edit]Mei Foo
- An area in Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
- 2007 June 21, “Voices: Thoughts on Hong Kong”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 September 2023, Asia Pacific[2]:
- Do you think that in France, the property developers who want to sell a new luxury development in St. Tropez are going to show images of Mei Foo Sun Chun?
- 2020 March 1, Shibani Mahtani, “Coronavirus is fueling new protests in Hong Kong. Authorities aim to arrest their way out.”, in The Washington Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 01, 2020[4]:
- Residents of a housing estate in Mei Foo, Hong Kong, protest Feb. 2 against government plans to turn a nearby hotel into a coronavirus quarantine facility.
Translations
[edit]area in Hong Kong
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Further reading
[edit]- Mei Foo at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.