Lam Tin

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 藍田 / 蓝田 (laam⁴ tin⁴).

Proper noun

Lam Tin

1. An area in Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   • 1977, Frank Leeming, “Kwuntong”, in Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City (East Asian Social Science Monographs)‎^[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 127:

     Sau Mau Ping and Lam Tin are not the only contributors to the growth of the hinterland of Kwuntong. In all, government housing projects on the east side of Kowloon Bay, counting only those to the south of Ping Shek, and not including Kwuntong itself, have a total population of about 400,000 people; Kwuntong itself contributes about 80,000 in government or Housing Society housing, and about 150,000 in private accommodation.⁶ All these people live in an area which is in some sense tributary to Kwuntong. In the resettlement estates like Lam Tin whose communications with Kowloon are necessarily through Kwuntong, most people visit Kowloon only exceptionally, at holiday times and for special reasons.

   • 2021 February 1, Candice Chau, “In Pictures: Hong Kong imposes third overnight Covid-19 lockdown, no cases found after 400 tested”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[2], archived from the original on 26 October 2021:

     The Hong Kong government imposed a third “ambush-style” lockdown at a housing estate in Lam Tin on Sunday night, as two building blocks recorded 15 coronavirus infections in 12 days.

   • 2023 March 24, Kanis Leung, “Hong Kong traffic accident leaves 87 people injured”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-21, World‎^[4]:

     The accident occurred after midday near a tunnel entrance on Tseung Kwan O Road in Lam Tin, a residential area in Kowloon. A taxi carried out a “careless lane change” and the other vehicles could not stop in time, causing the collision, senior police inspector Lee Pok-kit said.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lam Tin.
2. A village of Tsing Yi Rural Committee, Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Synonyms

• (village): Lam Tin Tsuen

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 藍田 / 蓝田 (laam⁴ tin⁴)

See also

• Lantian

Further reading

• Lam Tin at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.