History - 3
Road Names in Hokkien
An indexPart 4 (T - Z)
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History - 3
Road Names in Hokkien An indexPart 4 (T - Z) |
TTT Tai Jin Kuan (The Taijin's Office = The Chinese Protectorate.) Downing Street, In Cantonese, P'ai Koon (Licence House - house where licences under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance were issued) (Lo Man Yuk) T'ai Goo Au (Back of the place where cows were killed). - Malay Street. Also T'ai Goo Harng (Lo Man Yuk) T'ai Gu Harng (Killing Cows Lane, cattle were formerly slaughtered there for the market. Also T'ai Goo Au (Lo Man Yuk) Tai.Goo Harng Lor T'au (Head of Killing Cows Lane) - Malay Street Ghaut. (Lo Man Yuk) T'ai Ko Harng (Lepers' Lane. Where lepers lived on the charity of certain rich Chinese) - Muda Lane. (Lo Man Yuk) Taik Soon Lor (Taik Soon Road) - Tek Soon Street. Also Ch'ar Tniar Au (Lo Mun Yuk) Taik Soon Ch'oo Pnee Kay (Taik Soon's House Side Street) - Transfer Road (Lo Man Yuk) T'au Tiau Lor (First Street) Magazine Road Teng Pai Kuan (Badge Nailing Department, rickshaw registration office) - Where the present Komtar Building stands (Dr Goh Ban Lee) Tiau Ho Lor (named after Tiau Ho?) - Transfer Road Tiau Kio T'au (Suspension Bridge Head, the bridge over the Prangin Ditch) - Penang Road about the Prangin Ditch. This name is sometimes, though improperly, applied to those parts of Prangin Road, Maxwell Road and Burmah Road which join Penang Road at the Prangin Ditch; the general name for the whole district round about here is Titi Papan, meaning The Wooden Bridge (Lo Man Yuk) Tiau Larng Kay (Hanging People Street. Formerly criminals were hanged there) - Penang Road about Chulia Street (Lo Man Yuk) Tio Chiu Kay (Tiochiu Street. Tio Chiu is a prefecture from which the Tiochiu people come. This street is so-called because formerly there were many China-born Tiochiu prostitutes living there. Owing however to the prohibition of female emigration from Swatow, the port, by the Chinese government upon representations made by the Tiochiu merchants of the Straits Settlements, all Tiochiu prostitutes have since disappeared from this street.) - Kimberley Street, Cantonese: Ch'iu Chau Mui Kai (Tiochiu Girl Street). Also Snooar T'au Kay. Also Mee Snooar Kay, also Snair Tnair Kongsi Kay, also P'ar So-Ar Hang. (Lo Man Yuk) Tio Chiu Kong Si Au (Back of Tio Chiu Kongsi, the Tio Chiu Kongsi house was in Chulia Street, where it joins Queen's Street) - Pitt Lane (Lo Man Yuk) Tiong Kay (Middle Street) - Beach Street between Chulia Street and Armenian Street i.e. the middle part of Beach Street (Lu Man Yuk) Tiong Lor (Middle Road, the middle road of the six roads meeting at Magazine) - Macalister Road. (Lo Man Yuk) Tng Narng Kay (Chinese Street) - Penang Street T'or Kio Boey (End of the earthen bridge) - Noordin Street Ghaut (Ang Teng Kak area) T'or K'or Kay (Godown Street) - Beach Street between Light Street and China Street where the European firms are (Lo Man Yuk) T'or K'or Keng (earth mound building, Godown St where European firms were located. Hence T'or K'or Kay - Beach St ((Ronald Byrne The Star 22.5.85)) Tuar Ch'eng K'arng (Big Cannon Hole) - Cannon Street, so called because during the Penang riots the Government fired a shot into this place where people of the Tuar Pair Kong otherwise known as the Kian Taik Kongsi encamped. Tuar Bar Lai (The Large Police Station, the Pitt Street Police Station) - Pitt Street between China Street and Chulia Street. (Lo Man Yuk) Tuar Ch'ai Hnui Lor (Big Vegetable Garden Road, from the many vegetable gardens there) - Race Course Road (Lo Man Yuk) Tuar Cheng Harng (Big Gun Alley) - Cannon Street (Khoo Su Nin) Tuar Chooi Chnair (Big Well. Formerly there was a big water tank there) - Chulia Street Ghaut. Also the name for Pitt Street between Chulia Street and Armenian Street.ALso Iar K'ar (Foot of the Coconut Trees, there being many coconut trees there). In Cantonese, Tai Marn Lau Kai See (Chulia Street Market) (Lo Man Yuk) Tuar Chooi Chnair (Big Well) - Chulia Street Ghaut, after the big water tank there. Also the name for Pitt Street between Chulia Street and Armenian Street because there was also a big water tank there (Lo Man Yuk) Tuar Chui Tnee (The large water tank) - Pitt Street between Chulia Street and Armenian Street after the water tank (Ronald Byrne 26.6.85 The Star) Tuar Kay (Big Street, the principal street where the Chinese formerly carried on business) - China Street. In Cantonese Koon Yarm Chaik Kai (The street going straight from the Temple of the Goddess of Mercy) Tuar Kay Lor T'au ((at the) Head of Big Street) - China Street Ghaut (Lo Man Yuk) Tuar Lor Au (Back of Big Road) - Perak Road (Lo Man Yuk) Tuar Mooi Lau (Big Archway. Formerly there were two big archways to a large compound house here.) - Chulia Street between Pitt Street and Love Lane (Lo Man Yuk) Tuar Mooi Lau Lai (Within the Big Archway. There was a big compound house there with two entrances over each of which was a big archway, the present Sek Chuan Lane being formerly one of the two entrances) - Sek Chuan Lane (Lo Man Yuk) Tuar Mui Lor Huay Kay (Chulia Street, Cross Street) - Carnarvon Street between Chula Street and Campbell Street - the street branching off from Chulia Street (Lo Man Yuk) Tuar Pair Kong Lor (Tua Pair Kong Road) - King Street Tuar T'ong Harng - Cannon St Tuarn Losin (Tuan Losin Street) - Beach Street between Armenian Street and Acheen Street; named after Tengku Syed Hussein who owned most of the houses in this part of the road (Lo Man Yuk). Tuarn Pali (One Mr Paddy formerly owned a large portion of land here) - Green Hall. Also Kilin Hor (corruption of Green Hall). (Lo Man Yuk) YYY Yee Nai Hang (Lane of Mistresses (Cantonese) Lorong Muda off Stewart Lane (The Star 20.2.2002 ) ______ sources Dr Goh Ban Lee in the Pulau Pinang Vol 1 No 5 Khoo Su Nin Pulau Pinang Vol 2 No 1 Khoo Su Nin Streets of George Town Penang 1993 Lo Man Yuk Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Straits Branch 1900 (Ronald Byrne, from the Penang Public Library records, The Star May/June/July 1985 mainly quotes from Mr Lo Man Yuk We also thank Mr Chan Yong-Mee, Mr Lee Liang Shu and Mr Tang Khye Kian for their assistance |
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