Pok Fu Lam

English

Alternative forms

• Pokfulam, Pok Fu Lum, Pokfulum, Pok-foo-lum

Etymology

From Cantonese 薄扶林 (bok^6-3 fu^4-6 lam⁴).

Proper noun

Pok Fu Lam

1. A village in Southern district, Hong Kong.
   • 2013 October 9, “Battersea Power Station ‘at risk’”, in The Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 April 2021‎^[2]:

     Battersea Power Station is among a host of world monuments that have been placed on a list of threatened heritage. It is one of 67 cultural sites in 41 countries deemed to be at risk from the forces of nature and social, political and economic change.
     They range from Venice to the little-known village of Pok Fu Lam in Hong Kong, and include sites dating from prehistory to the twentieth century.

   • 2017 January 11, Christopher Dewolf, “Stories behind Hong Kong districts: Pok Fu Lam Village, once a rural idyll, unbowed amid uncertain future”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 January 2017, Travel & Leisure‎^[4]:

     When social worker Benjamin Sin Chiu-hang was posted to the Caritas office in Pok Fu Lam Village, he knew he had arrived somewhere special. “The people living there were somehow different from the people elsewhere in Hong Kong,” he says. “It’s a horizontal community, very vernacular and organic.”

   • 2022 August 30, Kelly Ho, “Hong Kong’s iconic Tai Hang fire dragon dance cancelled for third consecutive year amid Covid-19”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[5], archived from the original on 21 August 2023, Hong Kong:

     The organiser of another fire dragon dance performance, which traditionally took place in Pok Fu Lam Village on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, said on the same radio programme that they were yet to receive a formal reply from the government as to whether the event can go ahead.

2. An area in Southern district, Hong Kong.
   • 2010 December 15, “PRESS DIGEST - Hong Kong - Dec 16”, in Reuters‎^[6], archived from the original on 21 August 2023, CONSUMER GOODS AND RETAIL‎^[7]:

     Hong Kong Cyberport Management, landlord of the government-backed flagship hi-tech facility in Pok Fu Lam, will invest HK$100 million ($12.9 million) in the next three years to make the Cyperport an Asia-Pacific information and communications technology hub, said Chairman Paul Chow.

   • 2011 October 17, Alec Frew McMillan, “Looking for Space in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times‎^[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-10-18‎^[9]:

     When they bought a penthouse in Pok Fu Lam, a leafy neighborhood on the western edge of Hong Kong island, Will Toye and Nicole Schoeni wanted to make the most of their roof, which they use frequently for entertaining.

   • 2023 June 9, “Burglars grab HK$800,000 in valuables from detached house in Pok Fu Lam”, in The Standard‎^[10], archived from the original on 21 August 2023, Local‎^[11]:

     An investigation is underway after some HK$800,000 in valuables was stolen from a detached house in Pok Fu Lam.

Synonyms

• (initialism) PFL
• (village): Pok Fu Lam Tsuen

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 薄扶林 (bok^6-3 fu^4-6 lam⁴)

Further reading

• Pok Fu Lam, Pokfulam, Pokfulum, Pok-foo-lum at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.