Yuen Long

English

Alternative forms

• Un Long, Ün Long, Ünlong

Etymology

From Cantonese 元朗 (jyun⁴ long⁵) or an earlier variant.

Proper noun

Yuen Long

1. An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • 2019 July 21, Shibani Mahtani, “Police dramatically increase security in Hong Kong as protests continue unabated”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-21, Asia & Pacific‎^[2]:

     On Sunday in Yuen Long, a part of the city near the overland border with China, a pro-Beijing group of a few hundred men dressed in white shirts entered the subway station and pummeled people with sticks and bats, targeting anti-government protesters returning from the march as well as journalists.

   • 2021 July 23, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-23, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.

2. A district of Hong Kong.
   • 1968, Jack M. Potter, “The Setting”, in Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village‎^[5], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:

     Each district is divided in turn into rural township units, which usually include from ten to thirty villages. In Yuen Long District, these smaller administrative units are called hsiang.

   • 2009, Helen Oon, “New Territories”, in Hong Kong (Globetrotters Travel Guide)‎^[6], 1st edition, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:

     The wetland park is situated on the northern tip of Tin Shui Wan^{[sic – meaning Tin Shui Wai]} in the Yuen Long District near the Chinese border.

   • 2019 October 5, “Hong Kong protests continue after night of violence that halted rail services”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[7], archived from the original on October 05, 2019, News‎^[8]:

     In the northern district of Yuen Long, a police officer opened fire when he was surrounded in his car and attacked by locals. A petrol bomb exploded at the officer's feet.
     "A large group of rioters attacked a plainclothes police officer in Yuen Long district. The police officer fell onto the ground and was beaten up by the group. Facing serious threat to his life, he fired one shot in self-defense," police said in a statement.

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 元朗 (jyun⁴ long⁵)

district of Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 元朗區 / 元朗区 (jyun⁴ long⁵ keoi¹)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuen Long”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3537, column 3
• Yuen Long, Un Long at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.