元朗

Yuánlǎng

popculture

Meanings

1 Yuen Long (district in northwest New Territories, Hong Kong)

Characters

first / primary

Examples

元朗位于香港新界西北部。

Yuánlǎng wèiyú Xiānggǎng Xīnjiè xīběibù.

Yuen Long is in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong.

元朗老婆饼很有名。

Yuánlǎng lǎopó bǐng hěn yǒumíng.

Yuen Long wife cakes are very famous.

Tips

culture

Yuen Long is famed for 老婆饼 ('wife cakes') — flaky pastries filled with candied winter melon — and for the 2019 Yuen Long attack during the Hong Kong protests, which became an iconic moment of that era.

Stroke Order

元 yuán

朗 lǎng