Diamond Hillとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Calque of Cantonese 鑽石山／钻石山 (zyun sek saan, literally “stone-mining hill”).

固有名詞

Diamond Hill

1. An area in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.
   • 2010 February 24, Julie Makinen, “A Green and Gold Gem in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 November 2023, In Transit‎:

     Hong Kong’s Diamond Hill was once home to a mix of gamblers, thugs and movie stars. Over the last 20 years, the government cleared away much of the squalor (and history) to make way for a subway stop, generic high-rise housing developments and the cacophonous Hollywood Plaza shopping center.

   • 2023 June 25, Lea Mok, “Series of knife attacks underscores mental health shortcomings in ‘happy Hong Kong’”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎, archived from the original on 25 June 2023, Hong Kong:

     After a brutal knife attack killed two women at a mall in Diamond Hill this month, Hong Kong police held a press conference which spelt out the shockingly indiscriminate nature of the assault.