Tsuen Wan

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Tsun Wan, Tsin Wan, Ts'ün Wán

Etymology

From Cantonese 荃灣／荃湾 (cyun⁴ waan¹).

Proper noun

Tsuen Wan

1. An area and town in Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
2. A district of Hong Kong.
   • 2019 November 10, “Hong Kong protests continue amid rage at activist death”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 November 2019, News‎^[2]:

     The northwestern district of Tsuen Wan also saw police firing tear gas to disperse protesters chased from the Citywalk shopping mall.

   • 2021 December 17, Alice Fung, Zen Soo, “Hong Kong public gears up to vote amid new election laws”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 2021-12-17‎^[4]:

     He ran in the 2019 district council elections, beating veteran pro-establishment politician Michael Tien in the Tsuen Wan district.

3. A rural committee in Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing districts, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 荃灣／荃湾 (cyun⁴ waan¹)

district of Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 荃灣區／荃湾区 (cyun⁴ waan¹ keoi¹)

rural committee

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 荃灣鄉事委員會／荃湾乡事委员会 (cyun⁴ waan¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui^6-2)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Tsuen Wan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3228, column 1
• Tsuen Wan, Tsun Wan, Tsin Wan at Google Ngram Viewer