Kowloon

• Kln

From Cantonese 九龍／九龙 (gau² lung⁴, literally “nine dragons”), named after its eight mountains and the Chinese emperor Zhao Bing (1272–1279).

• IPA^(key): /kaʊˈluːn/

Kowloon

1. An urban area of Hong Kong.
   • 1968, Jack M. Potter, Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village‎, University of California Press, page 36:

     By the late 1930's some modern factories, built by outside interests and producing such goods as bricks, beer, and chinaware for export abroad, had already appeared in Tsuen Wan, a market town near Kowloon.

• “Kowloon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “Kowloon” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

• Kowloon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia