Hung Hom

• Hunghom

From Cantonese 紅磡 / 红磡 (hung⁴ ham³).

• IPA^(key): /hoʊŋ hɒm/

Hung Hom

1. An area of Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   • 1987 July 5, Rudy Maxa, “SHOP TILL YOU DROP”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 April 2025‎^[2]:

     There are Western residents in Hong Kong who argue endlessly about the best place to shop. Go to the manufacturers' outlet stores at the Kaiser Estates in the Hung Hom area for designer labels at bargain prices.

   • 2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 April 2023, In Transit‎^[4]:

     But back to snacks that will test that iron stomach. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central. All these pictures were taken one evening in my neighborhood of Hung Hom.

   • 2019 August 18, Stephen Vines, “Hong Kong to defy ban on protest as fear of crackdown looms”, in The Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 December 2022:

     A smaller protest in Hung Hom, a district of outlet stores popular with mainland tourists, highlighted the growing tension between Hong Kong people and their mainland compatriots with protesters chanting, “Kick out the mainland tourists!”

   • 2019 November 18, “HKFP Lens: Hong Kong PolyU engulfed in fierce police-protester battles, as officers enter campus”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[6], archived from the original on 17 February 2021:

     Riot police entered the campus of the Polytechnic University in Hung Hom in the early hours of Monday morning following an almost day-long battle between demonstrators and police.

• Hung Hom, Hunghom at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.