Ma On Shanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Cantonese 馬鞍山 (maa on saan), when the initial of the third syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

固有名詞

Ma On Shan

1. An area and town in Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • 2019 October 11, Mike Ives, “At Hong Kong Protests, Art That Imitates Life”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 11, 2019, Asia Pacific‎:

     The poster below, on a wall in the Ma On Shan district in northeastern Hong Kong, seems to liken front line protesters to the protagonists of a battle scene in a Renaissance oil painting.

2. A peak in Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • 1995, Edward Stokes, “Sai Kung Peninsula”, in Hong Kong's Wild Places: An Environmental Exploration‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95, column 1:

     The next morning we looked over to where we had been the day before: on Ma On Shan’s buttress-like spurs and its 702-metre summit. The saddle between the two highest points, for which Ma On Shan (Horse Saddle Mountain) is named, stood out.

3. A village of Sha Tin Rural Committee, Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

同意語

• (village): Ma On Shan Tsuen

参考

• Ma'anshan

Further reading

• Ma On Shan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.