Yuen Long

English

Alternative forms

• Un Long, Ün Long, Ünlong

Etymology

From Cantonese 元朗 (jyun⁴ long⁵) or an earlier variant.

Proper noun

Yuen Long

1. An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • 2019 July 21, Shibani Mahtani, “Police dramatically increase security in Hong Kong as protests continue unabated”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-21, Asia & Pacific‎^[2]:

     On Sunday in Yuen Long, a part of the city near the overland border with China, a pro-Beijing group of a few hundred men dressed in white shirts entered the subway station and pummeled people with sticks and bats, targeting anti-government protesters returning from the march as well as journalists.

   • 2021 July 23, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-23, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.

2. A district of Hong Kong.
   • 1968, Jack M. Potter, “The Setting”, in Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village‎^[5], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:

     Each district is divided in turn into rural township units, which usually include from ten to thirty villages. In Yuen Long District, these smaller administrative units are called hsiang.

   • 2009, Helen Oon, “New Territories”, in Hong Kong (Globetrotters Travel Guide)‎^[6], 1st edition, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:

     The wetland park is situated on the northern tip of Tin Shui Wan^{[sic – meaning Tin Shui Wai]} in the Yuen Long District near the Chinese border.

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 元朗 (jyun⁴ long⁵)

district of Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 元朗區／元朗区 (jyun⁴ long⁵ keoi¹)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuen Long”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3537, column 3
• Yuen Long, Un Long at Google Ngram Viewer