Wan Chai

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Etymology

From Cantonese 灣仔／湾仔 (waan1 zai2).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɑːn t͡ʃaɪ/, /wæn t͡ʃaɪ/

Proper noun

Wan Chai

  1. A district of Hong Kong.
    • 2019 May 13, Jennifer Creery, “Dazed and confused: Hong Kong’s tourists at risk of drink spiking in Wan Chai”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎, archived from the original on 28 September 2024, HKFP Features:
      Unbeknownst to him, as he was taken into custody, the businessman had become a victim of drink spiking – a crime seen in Wan Chai, a district bristled with clubs and watering holes.
    • 2019 September 29, Mike Ives, Keith Bradsher, Andrew Jacobs, “Major Clashes Erupt in Hong Kong Ahead of China’s National Day”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-30‎:
      As dusk fell, demonstrators in the Wan Chai district continued to toss Molotov cocktails at the police while the clanging of bricks on metal street signs — the protesters’ call to arms — echoed through a canyon of tall apartment buildings.
  2. An area in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
    • 2019 September 26, Shibani Mahtani, Tiffany Liang, “Hong Kong’s embattled leader faces barrage of criticism at ‘dialogue’ session”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-26, Asia & Pacific‎:
      The flavor of the event was clear from the outset. Police had planned various routes to bring Lam into and out of the stadium, a 3,500-seat indoor sports arena in the Wan Chai district, after forums online discussed blocking her path.
    • 2021 September 19, “Hong Kong: 'Patriots only' election starts without pro-democracy candidates”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 19 September 2021, News‎:
      Four activists from the League of Social Democrats, a pro-democracy political party, staged a small protest near a polling station in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai neighborhood. The activists displayed banners that criticized using this "small circle election" to showcase "public opinion." The police stopped and searched the protesters.

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