Tung Chung

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 東涌 (dung¹ cung¹).

Proper noun

Tung Chung

1. An area and town in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • 2018 November 5, Kris Cheng, “Sunday tourist influx via new mega bridge sparks complaints from Tung Chung residents”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 February 2024, Hong Kong:

     Mainland Chinese tourists visited Tung Chung in large numbers on Sunday via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, sparking complaints from residents.
     Shops and restaurants in Tung Chung, the area closest to the bridge’s pier, were filled with tourists, as residents raised concerns about overcrowding. According to government figures, 102,919 people entered or left Hong Kong via the bridge on Sunday.

   • 2018 November 23, Amy Qin, Tiffany May, “For Some in Hong Kong, New Bridge Has a Downside: ‘That Kind of Tourist’”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-14, ASIA PACIFIC‎^[3]:

     But for the residents of the quiet Hong Kong suburb of Tung Chung, the initial fanfare following the opening of the world’s longest sea bridge last month has quickly given way to frustration.

   • 2019 June 21, Rebecca Tan, “He watched the Hong Kong protests from his Virginia apartment and decided he had to join”, in The Washington Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on June 21, 2019, Local‎^[5]:

     As a young boy, Cheung remembers, he looked up to the police officers in his neighborhood of Tung Chung. But on Friday, he joined thousands of demonstrators at the police headquarters in downtown Hong Kong to call for a formal investigation into their use of tear gas and rubber bullets days earlier.

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

Translations

island

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 東涌 (dung¹ cung¹)

rural committee

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 東涌鄉事委員會／东涌乡事委员会 (dung¹ cung¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui^6-2)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Tung Chung”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3236, column 1
• Tung Chung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.