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| Sham Shui Po | |||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 深水埗 | ||||||||||||||
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| Cantonese Yale | Sāmséuibóu | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "deep water pier" | ||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shēnshuǐbù |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Sāmséuibóu |
| IPA | [sɐ́m.sɵ̌y̯.pǒu̯] |
| Jyutping | Sam1seoi2bo2 |
Sham Shui Po (Chinese: 深水埗; Cantonese Yale: Sāmséuibóu) is an area of Sham Shui Po District, Hong Kong, situated in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Tai Kok Tsui, east of Cheung Sha Wan and south of Shek Kip Mei 石硤尾. Sham Shui Po is known for its street market for electronic devices.
The discovery in 1955 of the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb indicates that as early as 2000 years ago there were Chinese people settled in what is now Sham Shui Po. Sham Shui Po means "Deep Water Pier" in Cantonese. At the time, the water in Sham Shui Po was deeper than the beach of Cheung Sha Wan to the northwest. It is close to the former peninsula of Tai Kok Tsui, the low ridge of which ends in Sham Shui Po.
In the first stage, the town of Sham Shui Po was bounded by Yen Chow Street, Tung Chau Street, Wong Chuk Street and Apliu Street. Part of the town was on reclamation. The town was surrounded by villages of Un Chau, Tin Liu and Tong Mei. A nullah along Nam Cheong Street was constructed to drain the water of rivers north and east (which explains the street's wideness). The town was closed to Cosmopolitan Dock on the outer shore of Tai Kok Tsui.
Under Japanese occupation, a concentration camp was maintained here for most of the duration of the Second World War. An account of life by a British POW has been published as The Hard Way: Surviving Shamshuipo POW Camp 1941-45 by Victor Stanley Ebbage (Spellmount, 2011).
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