Mui Wo

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 梅窩 / 梅窝 (mui⁴ wo¹).

Proper noun

Mui Wo

1. A town in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong region.
   • 1988 April 16, David Yeadon, “HONG KONG MEMORIES IN A MIST THE SERENE PLEASURES OF THE OUT ISLANDS”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 18, 2024‎^[2]:

     At the top of the fourth ridge the whole of Silvermine Bay (Mui Wo) opened up with its arc of white sand and wooden sampans bobbing near the shore.

   • 2009 November 6, Ben Sin, “Village voices”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 January 2024‎^[4]:

     'After waiting for the government for the past several years, we've decided to take charge and help the area ourselves by organising more events to highlight the beauty of Mui Wo,' Wong says.
     Wan Tung-yat, who heads the South Lantao Rural Committee, says: 'We've got to do this ourselves.'

   • 2012, Timothy Choy, “Air's Substantiations”, in Kaushik Sunder Rajan, editor, Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets‎^[5], Duke University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123:

     The winter of poor air had also forced my partner, Zamira, and me to relocate from our apartment in Sai Ying Pun, an aging urban district in Western Hong Kong where we had been living since arriving in the city, to a flat in a village house in Mui Wo, a rural town on the coast of Lantau Island.

   • 2018 October 22, Jennifer Creery, “In Pictures: Mui Wo residents take to the beach in protest of Lantau reclamation plan”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[6], archived from the original on 26 February 2024, Hong Kong:

     Residents of Mui Wo on Lantau Island took to Silvermine Bay Beach on Sunday to protest land reclamation plans, saying that the project will damage the environment and line the pockets of developers. […]
     At 6am on Sunday, 17 Mui Wo residents gathered on the beach and held up a banner reading: “Oppose the East Lantau Metropolis plan.” A joint demonstration was also held the same day on Lamma Island and Sai Wan, in support of Mui Wo residents.

   • 2019 November 22, Ilaria Maria Sala, “After the Protests: How Will Hong Kong Vote?”, in The New York Times‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 November 2019, Opinion‎^[8]:

     To reach Mui Wo, a small town on Lantau Island, you take a ferry from central Hong Kong, and after a 30-minute ride arrive at a small square with a car park and bus stops blackened by fumes.

2. A rural committee in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong region.

Translations

town in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 梅窩 / 梅窝 (mui⁴ wo¹)

rural committee

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 梅窩鄉事委員會 / 梅窝乡事委员会 (mui⁴ wo¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui^6-2)

Further reading

• Mui Wo at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.