Lek Yuen

Lek Yuen (??; Pinyin: L? Yu?n) is the original name of Sha Tin area of the New Territories, Hong Kong. When British surveyors first came to the area, they visited Sha Tin Wai and tried to get the name of whole area. The villagers answered the officials it is Sha Tin and therefore the officials mistakenly recorded it as the name of whole area. Sha Tin is used instead of Lek Yuen even since.

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The name literally means Source of Trickling or Source of Clear Water.

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Nowadays, this name is used to refer to Lek Yuen Estate.

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Pinyin: Pinyin (??, p?ny?n) literally means "join (together) sounds" (a less literal translation being "phoneticize", "spell" or "transcription") in Chinese and usually refers to H?ny? P?ny?n (????, literal meaning: "Han language pinyin"), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcripti...

Sha Tin: Sha Tin, or Shatin (??), is an area in the core of the Sha Tin District, in the New Territories, Hong Kong. Before Sha Tin's development into a new town, Hung Mui Kuk (???) in southwestern Sha Tin was pereninally the site for school picnic....

New Territories: The New Territories (Chinese: 新界, Pinyin: X?nji?) is the area of land in Hong Kong, north of the Kowloon peninsula, south of Shenzhen He / Shum Chun River (深圳河) and Hong Kong's outlying islands (including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau), le...