North Point

English

Proper noun

North Point

1. An area in Eastern district, Hong Kong.
   • 2014, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, “The Fall of Hong Kong, December 1941”, in Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:

     The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.

   • 2017 February 7, Mike Ives, “Using Stealth, and Drones, to Document a Fading Hong Kong”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-02-15, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     Three masked explorers appeared atop an apartment tower in Hong Kong’s North Point district and sent a black drone flying, over a clothesline, until it was buzzing more than 10 stories above the cars, trams and pedestrians on the street below.

   • 2019 August 11, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong Protesters Gather Amid Fears of Mob Violence”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-11‎^[4]:

     The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit.

   • 2019 November 24, Shibani Mahtani, Simon Denyer, Tiffany Liang, Anna Kam, “Hong Kong’s pro-democracy parties sweep pro-Beijing establishment aside in local elections”, in The Washington Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 24, 2019, World‎^[6]:

     Even in pro-Beijing strongholds such as North Point, fresh-faced candidates running on an explicitly pro-democracy platform unseated longtime incumbents.

   • 2019 December 23, Kate Lamb, Jessie Pang, “Young democrats shake up pro-Beijing stronghold in Hong Kong”, in Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 28 August 2023, Top News‎^[8]:

     Densely packed with dilapidated, high-rise apartment blocks looming above bustling neon-lit streets, North Point has long been known as one of the “reddest” – or most pro-Beijing – districts in Hong Kong.

Synonyms

• (now usually synonymous) Tsat Tsz Mui

Descendants

• → Chinese: 北角 (calque)

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 北角 (bak¹ gok³)

Further reading

• North Point at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.