Tuen Mun

From Cantonese 屯門 (tyun⁴ mun⁴).

Tuen Mun

1. A district of Hong Kong.
2. An area and town in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong
   • 1989, Roger Bristow, “Strategic Planning and the New Towns”, in Hong Kong's New Towns: A Selective Review‎^[1], Hong Kong; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87:

     In accommodating sites at Tuen Mun (Castle Peak) for about 500,000 people as a part of the government’s new housing requirements, it immediately became apparent that the overall target population for the town as a whole was likely to approach over one million (similar to that of the earlier Tsuen Wan scheme).

   • 2019 July 13, Amy Qin, Ezra Cheung, “Hong Kong Protest Against Mainland Chinese Traders Turns Violent”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 July 2019, ASIA PACIFIC‎^[3]:

     Last weekend, thousands of protesters rallied in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Tuen Mun against a group of middle-aged mainland women who they accused of causing a disturbance in the local park with loud singing and provocative dancing.

   • 2019 November 15, Melissa Van Brunnersum, “Two German citizens detained in Hong Kong”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[4], archived from the original on 15 November 2019, News‎^[5]:

     Hong Kong police said they had detained two foreign men during what police there call a "dispersal operation" against a group of demonstrators gathered in Tuen Mun, Reuters reported.

   • 2023 January 10, Hillary Leung, “Hong Kong police alerted over video of two men ‘surfing’ roof of moving MTR train”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[6], archived from the original on 1 October 2024, Hong Kong:

     Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has alerted police after two men filmed themselves on top of a moving train in Tuen Mun, a stunt known as train surfing.

3. A rural committee in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

• Castle Peak

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Tuen Mun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3231, column 2: “Formerly called Castle Peak.”
• “Tuen Mun”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.