Pat Heung

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 八鄉 / 八乡 (baat³ hoeng¹).

Proper noun

Pat Heung

1. An area in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • 2017 September 9, Mike Ives, “Ex-Inmate Takes to Hong Kong’s Airwaves, and Prisoners Tune In”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on September 9, 2017, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     Mr. Aitken assisting at Mass at a church in Pat Heung, in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Mr. Aitken said he had immersed himself in the city’s Roman Catholic community as a way of feeding a spiritual hunger.

   • 2021 December 9, “Hong Kong police arrest man over toddler, domestic helper kidnap attempt at Cyberport”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on December 09, 2021, Hong Kong‎^[4]:

     They were then driven to a hillside near Tai Wo Tsuen village in the New Territories’ Pat Heung area, where they were pushed into a shipping container that had been turned into an office and used to store construction materials.

   • 2023 May 2, Tom Grundy, “1.9 metre crocodile found in Hong Kong village seized and transferred to Ocean Park”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[5], archived from the original on February 18, 2024, Hong Kong:

     Ocean Park has adopted a 35kg crocodile which was found in Pat Heung on Sunday. The 1.9 metre croc was transferred by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department to the park in Aberdeen that evening, with vets suggesting the animal is around four years old.

2. A rural committee in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 八鄉 / 八乡 (baat³ hoeng¹)

rural committee

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 八鄉鄉事委員會 / 八乡乡事委员会 (baat³ hoeng¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui^6-2)

Further reading

• Pat Heung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.