Shek Oとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Cantonese 石澳 (sek⁶ ou³).

固有名詞

Shek O

1. A village in Southern district, Hong Kong.
   • 2002, Jules Brown, Hong Kong & Macau, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 106:

     The bus drops you at the small bus station in Shek O village. Walk down the road to the roundabout and the beach is ahead of you, behind the car park.

   • 2013, Simon Ostheimer, Hong Kong Tuttle Travel Pack: Your Guide to Hong Kong's Best Sights for Every Budget, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:

     at winding the end of a peninsula and only accessible via a narrow, road, the little beachside village of Shek O is worlds away from the towers of Central.

   • 2017, Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia On A Budget, Penguin, →ISBN:

     In the far east of the island, Shek O is Hong Kong's most remote and exclusive settlement – house numbers on Shek O Road refer not to location but to when the owner became a member of the golf club and therefore allowed to build there.

2. An area in Southern district, Hong Kong.
   • 2006, “Hong Kong Beaches”, in The New York Times, Fodor's‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, Travel‎^[2]:

     Shek O, not far from Big Wave Bay, is almost Mediterranean in aspect. A wide beach with shops and restaurants nearby, it has refreshment kiosks, barbecue pits, lifeguards, swimming rafts, playgrounds, changing rooms, showers, and toilets.