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49-709: Quarry Bay is a residential and business district in Hong Kong. One Island East , the seventh tallest building in Hong Kong, is located in Quarry Bay. Some government departments such as the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council have relocated their offices from Central and Wan Chai to Quarry Bay over the years, and some multinational companies have their offices located in the district, such as Ernst & Young , BNP Paribas , LVMH and Boston Consulting Group , etc. Cityplaza and Kornhill Plaza , being one of

98-484: A combination of words that strictly belong to Korean and words that are loanwords from Chinese. Due to Chinese being pronounced with varying tones and Korean's removal of those tones, and because the modern Korean writing system, Hangeul, has a more finite number of phonemes than, for example, Latin-derived alphabets such as that of English, there are many homonyms with both the same spelling and pronunciation. For example There are heterographs, but far fewer, contrary to

147-580: A different tone can produce an entirely different word altogether. If tones are included, the number of unique syllables in Mandarin increases to at least 1,522. However, even with tones, Mandarin retains a very large amount of homophones. Yì , for example, has at least 125 homophones, and it is the pronunciation used for Chinese characters such as 义, 意, 易, 亿, 议, 一, and 已. There are even place names in China that have identical pronunciations, aside for

196-487: A few are triples like Most are couples like lehren (to teach) – leeren (to empty). Although Spanish has far fewer homophones than English, they are far from being non-existent. Some are homonyms, such as basta , which can either mean 'enough' or 'coarse', and some exist because of homophonous letters. For example, the letters b and v are pronounced exactly alike, so the words basta (coarse) and vasta (vast) are pronounced identically. Other homonyms are spelled

245-607: A larger amount of possible syllables so that words sounded more distinct from each other. Scholars also believe that Old Chinese had no phonemic tones, but tones emerged in Middle Chinese to replace sounds that were lost from Old Chinese. Since words in Old Chinese sounded more distinct from each other at this time, it explains why many words in Classical Chinese consisted of only one syllable. For example,

294-449: A second septet). The questionable octet is: Other than the common words raise , rays , and race this octet includes The inclusion of "race" in the octet above is questionable, since its pronunciation differs from the other words on the list (ending with /s/ instead of /z/). If proper names are included, then a possible nonet would be: The Portuguese language has one of the highest numbers of homophones and consequently homographs in

343-496: A vowel, and a nasal or retroflex consonant in respective order), there are only a little over 400 possible unique syllables that can be produced, compared to over 15,831 in the English language. Chinese has an entire genre of poems taking advantage of the large amount of homophones called one-syllable articles , or poems where every single word in the poem is pronounced as the same syllable if tones are disregarded. An example

392-417: Is kikō ( hiragana : きこう ), which is the pronunciation of at least 22 words (some quite rare or specialized, others common; all these examples are two-character compounds), including: Even some native Japanese words are homophones. For example, kami ( かみ ) is the pronunciation of the words The former two words are disambiguated from the latter two by pitch accent. The Korean language contains

441-495: Is a skyscraper in Taikoo Place , Quarry Bay , Hong Kong Island , Hong Kong . The skyscraper is a commercial office building, rising 298.35 m (979 ft) and has 69 storeys plus two levels of basement. There is a sky lobby on the 37th and 38th floors. In addition, there are 28 high-speed passenger lifts, six high-speed shuttle lifts between Main (G - 1/F) and Sky (37 - 38/F) lobbies, one passenger lift between

490-407: Is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, for example rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or spelled differently, as in rain , reign , and rein . The term homophone sometimes applies to units longer or shorter than words, for example a phrase, letter, or groups of letters which are pronounced

539-677: Is home to multiple hiking trails, including the Mount Parker Road Green Trail and the Hong Pak Country Trail, which connects further to nearby trails. The Woodside Biodiversity Education Center (also known as the Red House) is a biodiversity centre housing local animal species and displays of educational resources on Hong Kong wildlife. The centre is situated on Mount Parker Road , with benches available nearby for picnics. Wartime remains including

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588-477: Is mistakenly placed before -ся in the present tense of the third person, while in others, on the contrary, Ь before -ся is missing in the infinitive form. It is estimated that there are approximately 4,500 to 4,800 possible syllables in Vietnamese, depending on the dialect. The exact number is difficult to calculate because there are significant differences in pronunciation among the dialects. For example,

637-468: Is now apartment Kornville ( 康蕙花園 ), and Taikoo Sugar is now the Taikoo Place , a commercial hub. The western end of Quarry Bay was historically part of North Point ; during the 1930s its beaches became one of the most popular places for holding swimming galas in Hong Kong. From this basis an upmarket entertainment complex, the Ritz Nightclub ( 麗池夜總會 ; lai6 chi4 ye6 jung2 wui2 ), was built in

686-544: Is the Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den . Like all Chinese languages, Mandarin uses phonemic tones to distinguish homophonic syllables; Mandarin has five tones. A famous example, Although all these words consist of the same string of consonants and vowels, the only way to distinguish each of these words audibly is by listening to which tone the word has, and as shown above, saying a consonant-vowel string using

735-932: The Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery and was opened to the public as a museum in 2007. In addition to the fireboat itself, the Gallery houses a number of multimedia exhibits on the vessel's history and on firefighting in Hong Kong. "Monster Building" is a condominium complex of five interconnected buildings. The complex consists of Fook Cheong Building , Montane Mansion , Oceanic Mansion , Yick Cheong Building , and Yick Fat Building . Woodside Biodiversity Education Centre  [ zh-tw ] situated at Mount Parker Road, Quarry Bay. The centre comprises three themed exhibition galleries introducing Hong Kong's precious natural resources and biodiversity. The centre aims to foster public awareness, knowledge and understanding

784-620: The Jardine's Lookout or approach for Tai Tam Reservoirs . Stanley can be reached from Tai Tam Reservoirs via Violet Hill and The Twins . Shek O Country Park is also reachable from Tai Tam Reservoirs, which offer more hiking options. Tai Tam Reservoirs is situated near the Wong Lai Chung Reservoir Park . 22°16′59″N 114°12′46″E  /  22.28313°N 114.21279°E  / 22.28313; 114.21279 One Island East One Island East

833-627: The Russian language is associated in some cases with the phenomenon of devoicing of consonants at the end of words and before another consonant sound, in other cases with the reduction of vowels in an unstressed position. Examples include: поро г — п о ро к — п а рок, лу г — лу к , пло д — пло т , ту ш — ту шь , падё ж — падё шь , ба л — ба лл , ко сн ый — ко стн ый, пр е дать — пр и дать, к о мпания — к а мпания, к о сатка — к а сатка, прив и дение — прив е дение, ко т — ко д , пру т — пру д , т и трация — т е трация, компл и мент — компл е мент. Also,

882-753: The Standard Mandarin word 狮子( shīzi , meaning "lion") was simply 狮 ( shī ) in Classical Chinese, and the Standard Mandarin word 教育 ( jiàoyù, "education") was simply 教 ( jiào ) in Classical Chinese. Since many Chinese words became homophonic over the centuries, it became difficult to distinguish words when listening to documents written in Classical Chinese being read aloud. One-syllable articles like those mentioned above are evidence for this. For this reason, many one-syllable words from Classical Chinese became two-syllable words, like

931-658: The 1980s, an attempt was made to promote a distinctive term for same-sounding multiple words or phrases, by referring to them as "oronyms", but the term oronym was already well established in linguistics as an onomastic designation for a class of toponymic features (names of mountains, hills, etc.), the alternative use of the same term was not well accepted in scholarly literature. There are online lists of multinyms. In English, concerning groups of homophones (excluding proper nouns), there are approximately 88 triplets, 24 quadruplets, 2 quintuplets, 1 sextet, 1 septet, and 1 questionable octet (possibly

980-499: The Chinese language is that in non-rap songs, tones are disregarded in favor of maintaining melody in the song. While in most cases, the lack of phonemic tones in music does not cause confusion among native speakers, there are instances where puns may arise. Subtitles in Chinese characters are usually displayed on music videos and in songs sung on movies and TV shows to disambiguate the song's lyrics. The presence of homophones in

1029-544: The Wartime Stoves and Anti-Air-Raid Caves are preserved throughout Mount Parker Road Green Trail and the Hong Pak Country Trail . Hikes throughout Quarry Bay are often packed with resting benches, washrooms, pavilions, mappings as well as trash bins. Mount Butler , Mount Parker and Siu Ma Shan are mountains available for hiking. These mountains are linked towards more hiking options such as

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1078-403: The area in 1947. The nightclub was demolished a few years later to make way for the construction of apartment buildings during the latter half of the 1950s. Nonetheless, for years afterwards, the western part of Quarry Bay continued to be known informally as Lai Chi ( 麗池 ), made more so by the name being homophone to Cantonese for "late as usual" ( 例遲 ) – a reference to King's Road , until 1984

1127-480: The developer in 2002 and 2001 respectively. The main contractor was Gammon Construction . On 7 August 2008, within two hours of the hoisting of strong wind signal No.8 due to tropical storm Kammuri , some window panes of One Island East were shattered, sending shards of glass across the street and damaging the windows of four flats at Westlands Court. There were no injuries. Homophone A homophone ( / ˈ h ɒ m ə f oʊ n , ˈ h oʊ m ə -/ )

1176-528: The development, it was developed by Nan Fung Development. Because of the relatively large size of the development, it serves as the benchmark for premises developed in the late 1970s in the property market. The tower blocks range in height from 28 to 33 floors. Blocks 1 to 5 are at 32 to 40 (even numbers) Greig Road while blocks 6 to 12 are at 27 to 15 Greig Crescent. Taikoo Shing is a private residential development in Quarry Bay. Consisting of 61 mansions distributed along Taikoo Wan Road & Taikoo Shing Road, it

1225-426: The difference in tone. For example, there are two neighboring provinces with nearly identical names, Shanxi (山西) and Shaanxi (陕西) Province. The only difference in pronunciation between the two names are the tone in the first syllable (Shanxi is pronounced Shānxī whereas Shaanxi is pronounced Shǎnxī ) . As most languages exclude the tone diacritics when transcribing Chinese place names into their own languages,

1274-435: The distinction (a minimal pair ) are homophonous in the accent with the merger. Some examples from English are: Wordplay is particularly common in English because the multiplicity of linguistic influences offers considerable complication in spelling and meaning and pronunciation compared with other languages. Malapropisms , which often create a similar comic effect, are usually near-homophones. See also Eggcorn . During

1323-621: The district include buses, minibuses, and trams. The 1819 edition of the Gazetteer of Sun On County ( 嘉慶版新安縣志 ) did not mention today's Quarry Bay. Historians such as Anthony Kwok Kin Siu suggested Quarry Bay was a remote area before British colonial time. During colonial Hong Kong times, the Hakka stonemasons settled in the area after the British arrival. This area was a bay where rock from

1372-505: The graphemes and digraphs "d", "gi", and "r" are all pronounced /z/ in the Hanoi dialect, so the words dao (knife), giao (delivery), and rao (advertise) are all pronounced /zaw˧/. In Saigon dialect, however, the graphemes and digraphs "d", "gi", and "v" are all pronounced /j/, so the words dao (knife), giao (delivery), and vao (enter) are all pronounced /jaw˧/. Pairs of words that are homophones in one dialect may not be homophones in

1421-503: The hillsides were quarried and transported by ship for building construction or road building. The Chinese name Tsak Yue Chung ( 鰂魚涌 ) reveals that it was a small stream where crucian carp ( 鰂魚 ) could be found in the 19th century. The English name was Arrow Fish Creek . The original bay has disappeared since land reclamation has taken place, and was about 700 m (770 yd) from the current coastline. The eastern part of Quarry Bay, namely Quarry Point  [ yue ] ,

1470-478: The infinitive and the present (or simple future) tense of the third person of the same verb are often pronounced the same way (in writing they differ in the presence or absence of the letter Ь (soft sign) before the postfix -ся): (надо) решиться — (он) решится, (хочу) строиться — (дом) строится, (металл может) гнуться — (деревья) гнутся, (должен) вернуться — (они) вернутся. This often leads to incorrect spelling of reflexive verbs ending with -ться/-тся: in some cases, Ь

1519-515: The influence of homophones can be seen everywhere, from CCTV evening sketch programmes, folk art performances and popular folk life. In recent years, receiving the influence of Internet pop culture, young people have invented more new and popular homophones. Homophones even play a major role in daily life throughout China, including Spring Festival traditions, which gifts to give (and not give), political criticism, texting, and many other aspects of people's lives. Another complication that arises within

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1568-715: The inherent value of Hong Kong's biodiversity assets and to marshal public support and action for nature conservation. The head office of the Securities and Futures Commission is in One Island East in Quarry Bay. Quarry Bay is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 14. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and North Point Government Primary School. Kindergartens & Nurseries Primary schools Secondary schools Quarry Bay

1617-519: The largest shopping malls on Hong Kong Island is at Quarry Bay. With dense population as well as developed economic and commercial activities in the district, Quarry Bay has a considerable traffic demand. It is one of the transportation hubs in Hong Kong. There are two MTR stations in the district, being Quarry Bay Station and Taikoo Station . Quarry Bay Station is the intersection of the Island line and Tseung Kwan O line . Other transportation means in

1666-464: The latter of which varies between /ˈɡe:stə/ and /ˈɡɛstə/ and by a pair like Stiel (handle, stalk) – Stil (style), the latter of which varies between /ʃtiːl/ and /stiːl/. Besides websites that offer extensive lists of German homophones, there are others which provide numerous sentences with various types of homophones. In the German language homophones occur in more than 200 instances. Of these,

1715-477: The main lobby and basement carpark and two service lifts. One Island East was built under the first use of the Land (Compulsory Sale for Redevelopment) Ordinance (Cap 545), exercised by Swire in 2000. Part of the site was previously occupied by Melbourne Industrial Building (23-floor industrial building demolished 2005) and Aik San Factory Building (22-floor industrial building demolished 2005) which were acquired by

1764-443: The number of homophones varies accordingly. Regional variation is especially common in words that exhibit the long vowels ä and e . According to the well-known dictionary Duden , these vowels should be distinguished as /ɛ:/ and /e:/, but this is not always the case, so that words like Ähre (ear of corn) and Ehre (honor) may or may not be homophones. Individual variation is shown by a pair like Gäste (guests) – Geste (gesture),

1813-463: The only thoroughfare in the area and thus infamous for traffic congestion. To this day, some buildings in the western part of Quarry Bay are named as "North Point something building", although they are across the modern-day limit of North Point at Man Hong Street / Healthy Street West. Quarry Bay is considered as an area surrounded by Kornhill Road  [ yue ] to the east, Hong Shing Street and Mount Parker Road  [ yue ] to

1862-490: The only way to visually distinguish the two names is to write Shaanxi in Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization . Otherwise, nearly all other spellings of placenames in mainland China are spelled using Hanyu Pinyin romanization. Many scholars believe that the Chinese language did not always have such a large number of homophones and that the phonological structure of Chinese syllables was once more complex, which allowed for

1911-623: The other. For example, the words sắc (sharp) and xắc (dice) are both pronounced /săk˧˥/ in Hanoi dialect, but pronounced /ʂăk˧˥/ and /săk˧˥/ in Saigon dialect respectively. Pseudo-homophones are pseudowords that are phonetically identical to a word. For example, groan/grone and crane/crain are pseudo-homophone pairs, whereas plane/plain is a homophone pair since both letter strings are recognised words. Both types of pairs are used in lexical decision tasks to investigate word recognition . Homophones, specifically heterographs, where one spelling

1960-665: The reader (as in crossword puzzles ) or to suggest multiple meanings. The last usage is common in poetry and creative literature . An example of this is seen in Dylan Thomas 's radio play Under Milk Wood : "The shops in mourning" where mourning can be heard as mourning or morning . Another vivid example is Thomas Hood 's use of birth and berth as well as told and toll'd (tolled) in his poem "Faithless Sally Brown": In some accents , various sounds have merged in that they are no longer distinctive, and thus words that differ only by those sounds in an accent that maintains

2009-567: The river was converted into a cement-paved catchwater, and the lower course is the present-day Quarry Bay Street ( 鰂魚涌街 ), with the original estuary near the Quarry Bay Street – King's Road junction. In the mid-1980s, the hillside was converted into Kornhill apartment buildings, the reservoir into Mount Parker Lodge  [ zh-tw ] ( 康景花園 ) apartment buildings, and the Dockyard into Taikoo Shing . The Coca-Cola factory

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2058-555: The same as a counterpart. Any unit with this property is said to be homophonous ( / h ə ˈ m ɒ f ən ə s / ). Homophones that are spelled the same are both homographs and homonyms . For example, the word read , in "He is well read " and in "Yesterday, I read that book". Homophones that are spelled differently are also called heterographs , e.g. to , too , and two . "Homophone" derives from Greek homo- (ὁμο‑), "same", and phōnḗ (φωνή), "voice, utterance". Homophones are often used to create puns and to deceive

2107-882: The same, but mean different things in different genders. For example, the masculine noun el capital means 'capital' as in 'money', but the feminine noun la capital means 'capital city'. There are many homophones in Japanese, due to the use of Sino-Japanese vocabulary , where borrowed words and morphemes from Chinese are widely used in Japanese, but many sound differences, such as the original words' tones , are lost. These are to some extent disambiguated via Japanese pitch accent (i.e. 日本 vs. 二本 , both pronounced nihon , but with different pitches), or from context, but many of these words are primarily or almost exclusively used in writing, where they are easily distinguished as they are written with different kanji ; others are used for puns, which are frequent in Japanese. An extreme example

2156-406: The south, junction of King's Road and Healthy Street West to the west, and Taikoo Wan Road to the north. Also, a few industrial buildings exist in the areas of Shipyard Lane. Former Nan Fung Sun Chuen ( 南豐新邨 ), built in 1978, is a private apartment estate. Consisting of 2,827 apartment units in 12 buildings distributed along Greig Road and Greig Crescent with a car park at the centre of

2205-472: The tendency in English. For example, Using hanja ( 한자 ; 漢字 ), which are Chinese characters , such words are written differently. As in other languages, Korean homonyms can be used to make puns. The context in which the word is used indicates which meaning is intended by the speaker or writer. Due to phonological constraints in Mandarin syllables (as Mandarin only allows for an initial consonant,

2254-415: The words mentioned in the previous paragraph. Even with the existence of two- or two-syllable words, however, there are even multisyllabic homophones. And there are also a lot of harmonic words. The cultural phenomenon brought about by such linguistic characteristics is that from ancient times to the present day, people have been keen to play games and jokes with homophonic and harmonic words. In modern life,

2303-665: The world. Homophonic words include: "Jogo" - I throw, "Jogo" - I play, "Jogo" - Match (Sports), and "Jogo" - Game (This last one is controversial, with dialects like Paulistano considering it non-homophonic, while dialects like Caipira consider it only homophonic, noting that these are two Brazilian dialects.) For example, "Cinto" is a homophone for 9 other words, totalizing 10.(Oxford Languages) Although they are homophones, most of them are also homographs. There are many homophones in present-day standard German. As in other languages, however, there exists regional and/or individual variation in certain groups of words or in single words, so that

2352-506: Was developed by Swire. The Alexander Grantham was a fireboat of Hong Kong 's Fire Services Department . The fireboat was named after former Governor Sir Alexander Grantham . The boat has since retired from service and been replaced by other vessels. On 10 March 2006, the fireboat was successfully hoisted into its new permanent home in the Central Concourse of Quarry Bay Park , Hong Kong, where it has been converted into

2401-748: Was largely owned by Swire and therefore many places and facilities are named after the company's Chinese name, Taikoo . The river originally flowed into the bay, however it was shut off from the sea with the construction of the Tai Koo Reservoir  [ zh-tw ] to supply fresh water to the Taikoo Dockyard , the Taikoo Sugar factory at Tong Chong Street ( 糖廠街 ), and later the Swire Coca-Cola factory at Greig Road ( 基利路 ) and Yau Man Street ( 佑民街 ). The upper course of

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