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| Processed by: | goldyn_chyld (2012-02-28 20:12:16 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 39062 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> It was a bay on the Kowloon Peninsula, but the bay no longer exists, due to land reclamation. Wp ~ Tai Wan (Traditional Chinese: 大環, formerly 大灣) was a bay in southeastern Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. The south end of the bay joined with the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock. The name also refers to an area, which neighbours To Kwa Wan and the Whampoa Garden in Hung Hom. ... It is common that the character 灣 is mistakenly written as its homonym of 環 in Hong Kong. This has caused confusion amongst local people, even government officials. The name of its major road Tai Wan Road illustrates the phenomenon. Tai Wan Road (大環道) is a road in Tai Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. ... Since 2 June 1922, the official Chinese name was 大灣道, but it was mistaken as 大環道 on road signs and people got used to the wrong name even since. 大環（舊稱大灣）是香港九龍南部的一個地方，屬於紅磡的東 部。在紅磡灣填海之前，該處曾是一個海灣 (當中少部分地區，包括今紅磡邨至鶴園一帶屬九龍半島海岸陸 地，普遍以山丘為主)。當時海灣是南端是 黃埔船塢。然而目前這個地名已逐漸被遺忘，很多人也只會以 紅磡直接稱呼該區。 The [Kowloon] peninsula has been significantly expanded through land reclamation from the sea, over several phases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Wan,_Hung_Hom http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E7%92%B0_(%E7 %B4%85%E7%A3%A1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Peninsula |
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- 大環 大环 [da4 huan2] /Tai Wan (bay in Hong Kong)/ + 大環 大环 [Da4 Huan2] /Tai Wan, a locality in Kowloon, Hong Kong/ |