Harbour City is a shopping centre in Tsim Sha Tsui , Kowloon , Hong Kong. It occupies the lower levels of a series of office blocks and hotels, comprising several parts: Marco Polo Hotels , Ocean Terminal , Ocean Centre, the Gateway and the Pacific Club Kowloon. The complex is located along the west side of Canton Road , stretching from Star House and the Star Ferry Pier in the south to China Hong Kong City in the north.
31-478: Harbour City is the largest shopping centre in Hong Kong. It is developed and owned by The Wharf (Holdings) Limited group. The mall covers an area of approximately 2 million square feet, including 70 restaurants, 1 large cinema, an art gallery, observation deck and about 450 retail stores. The office portion of Harbour City covers an area of 4.6 million square feet spread across 10 commercial buildings. The total area of
62-582: A case in Harbour City. (Shooting was set to begin in December 2015.) This article about a Hong Kong building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This retail business article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Kowloon -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Wharf (Holdings) The Wharf (Holdings) Limited ( Chinese : 九龍倉集團 ), or Wharf (九倉) in short,
93-503: A certain extent in South Korea , remain virtually identical to traditional characters, with variations between the two forms largely stylistic. There has historically been a debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters . Because the simplifications are fairly systematic, it is possible to convert computer-encoded characters between the two sets, with the main issue being ambiguities in simplified representations resulting from
124-432: A company founded in 1886 in Hong Kong. The company's original business was in running wharfage and dockside warehousing, and it was originally known as The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, limited and founded by Sir Paul Chater . The company adopted its current name in 1986. The current major holder of the company is Wheelock & Co. , which was formed in 1886 to operate the godown but has since grown to be
155-465: A major commercial force in Hong Kong. The mall features many branded boutiques, such as Cerruti 1881, Gieves & Hawkes , Kent & Curwen, D'Urban, MCM ( Mode Creation Munich ), Louis Vuitton , Salvatore Ferragamo , Shiatzy Chen , Prada , Yves Saint Laurent , Polo Ralph Lauren , Versace , Burberry , and Hugo Boss . The mall also has a cinema, the Grand Ocean, operated by Golden Harvest . It
186-601: A standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages . In Taiwan , the set of traditional characters is regulated by the Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters . These forms were predominant in written Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, when various countries that use Chinese characters began standardizing simplified sets of characters, often with characters that existed before as well-known variants of
217-798: Is 産 (also the accepted form in Japan and Korea), while in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan the accepted form is 產 (also the accepted form in Vietnamese chữ Nôm ). The PRC tends to print material intended for people in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese in traditional characters. For example, versions of the People's Daily are printed in traditional characters, and both People's Daily and Xinhua have traditional character versions of their website available, using Big5 encoding. Mainland companies selling products in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan use traditional characters in order to communicate with consumers;
248-450: Is a company founded in 1886 in Hong Kong . As its name suggests, the company's original business was in running wharfage and dockside warehousing, and it was originally known as The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited and founded by Sir Paul Chater . The company adopted its current name in 1986. The current major holder of the company is Wheelock & Co . The company
279-516: Is home to the largest Toys "R" Us location in Hong Kong, and there is a large Lane Crawford in the Ocean Terminal portion of the mall. The 3rd floor of Ocean Terminal was converted in the early 2000s into LCX, a collection of retailers targeted at younger shoppers. c!ty'super is located in Harbour City. In Top of the Lake season 2, Detective Griffin (played by Elisabeth Moss ) was to investigate
310-640: Is still the owner of the Star Ferry , although this icon of Hong Kong now forms a relatively small part of the company's portfolio. The Five Flag Poles , a set of flag poles flying flags of the company, are a short walk from the Star Ferry's Tsim Sha Tsui pier and form a local landmark and meeting point. In a more modern vein, the company owns two major flagship properties in the Harbour City and Times Square shopping centres in Hong Kong. Both owe their origins to
341-483: The Chinese Commercial News , World News , and United Daily News all use traditional characters, as do some Hong Kong–based magazines such as Yazhou Zhoukan . The Philippine Chinese Daily uses simplified characters. DVDs are usually subtitled using traditional characters, influenced by media from Taiwan as well as by the two countries sharing the same DVD region , 3. With most having immigrated to
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#1732892134755372-622: The Shanghainese -language character U+20C8E 𠲎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20C8E —a composition of 伐 with the ⼝ 'MOUTH' radical—used instead of the Standard Chinese 嗎 ; 吗 . Typefaces often use the initialism TC to signify the use of traditional Chinese characters, as well as SC for simplified Chinese characters . In addition, the Noto, Italy family of typefaces, for example, also provides separate fonts for
403-439: The 1980s. Due to its size and number of shops, approximately 300,000 people visit the shopping centre during the weekends, including local residents and tourists from mainland China and abroad. Over 60,000 people also work in the office buildings above the shopping centre. The mall has a small venue for performances and exhibitions. Every Saturday and Sunday, the mall invites bands and local musicians to perform in their "Music in
434-629: The City" event. There is usually a festive atmosphere during Christmas and Lunar Year Festivals, with decorations mainly located near the entrance of the Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry pier. Harbour City is built on the site of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown , one of colonial Hong Kong's original commercial wharfage and dockside warehousing complexes. Harbour City is still owned by The Wharf (Holdings) Limited ( 九龍倉集團 ), or Wharf ( 九倉 ) in short,
465-547: The People's Republic of China, traditional Chinese characters are standardised according to the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters . Dictionaries published in mainland China generally show both simplified and their traditional counterparts. There are differences between the accepted traditional forms in mainland China and elsewhere, for example the accepted traditional form of 产 in mainland China
496-571: The United States during the second half of the 19th century, Chinese Americans have long used traditional characters. When not providing both, US public notices and signs in Chinese are generally written in traditional characters, more often than in simplified characters. In the past, traditional Chinese was most often encoded on computers using the Big5 standard, which favored traditional characters. However,
527-531: The company's transportation heritage, as they are respectively built on the site of the company's original wharf, and on the site of the original depot of the Hong Kong Tramway (owned 1974–2009), a former subsidiary. Other holdings in Hong Kong include i-CABLE , Cable TV and WTT , and Modern Terminals . The company also holds many properties in the Tsim Sha Tsui area of Kowloon . On 26 July 2016, it
558-470: The complex is 8.41 million square feet, which includes three luxury hotels, a 500-room serviced apartment (Gateway Apartments), a private club (Pacific Club) and 2,000 parking spaces. The complex was a redevelopment of the existing Kowloon Wharves and completed in multiple phases. The earliest portion, Ocean Terminal , was completed in 1966 as a shopping centre with a passenger terminal servicing cruise ships. The entire complex gradually took shape throughout
589-750: The component of the blue chip index Hang Seng Index . In December 2020, the company was awarded a plot located on the Peak for $ 1.5 billion, marking the first sale of a parcel in the prestigious neighbourhood since 2011. Wharf Hotels is a subsidiary that manages 17 hotels, as of 2022, in Mainland China, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Twelve of the hotels are under the Marco Polo Hotels brand and five are flagged under Niccolo Hotels. Traditional Chinese characters Traditional Chinese characters are
620-493: The inverse is equally true as well. In digital media, many cultural phenomena imported from Hong Kong and Taiwan into mainland China, such as music videos, karaoke videos, subtitled movies, and subtitled dramas, use traditional Chinese characters. In Hong Kong and Macau , traditional characters were retained during the colonial period, while the mainland adopted simplified characters. Simplified characters are contemporaneously used to accommodate immigrants and tourists, often from
651-725: The mainland. The increasing use of simplified characters has led to concern among residents regarding protecting what they see as their local heritage. Taiwan has never adopted simplified characters. The use of simplified characters in government documents and educational settings is discouraged by the government of Taiwan. Nevertheless, with sufficient context simplified characters are likely to be successfully read by those used to traditional characters, especially given some previous exposure. Many simplified characters were previously variants that had long been in some use, with systematic stroke simplifications used in folk handwriting since antiquity. Traditional characters were recognized as
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#1732892134755682-682: The majority of Chinese text in mainland China are simplified characters , there is no legislation prohibiting the use of traditional Chinese characters, and often traditional Chinese characters remain in use for stylistic and commercial purposes, such as in shopfront displays and advertising. Traditional Chinese characters remain ubiquitous on buildings that predate the promulgation of the current simplification scheme, such as former government buildings, religious buildings, educational institutions, and historical monuments. Traditional Chinese characters continue to be used for ceremonial, cultural, scholarly/academic research, and artistic/decorative purposes. In
713-975: The merging of previously distinct character forms. Many Chinese online newspapers allow users to switch between these character sets. Traditional characters are known by different names throughout the Chinese-speaking world. The government of Taiwan officially refers to traditional Chinese characters as 正體字 ; 正体字 ; zhèngtǐzì ; 'orthodox characters'. This term is also used outside Taiwan to distinguish standard characters, including both simplified, and traditional, from other variants and idiomatic characters . Users of traditional characters elsewhere, as well as those using simplified characters, call traditional characters 繁體字 ; 繁体字 ; fántǐzì ; 'complex characters', 老字 ; lǎozì ; 'old characters', or 全體字 ; 全体字 ; quántǐzì ; 'full characters' to distinguish them from simplified characters. Some argue that since traditional characters are often
744-665: The official script in Singapore until 1969, when the government officially adopted Simplified characters. Traditional characters still are widely used in contexts such as in baby and corporation names, advertisements, decorations, official documents and in newspapers. The Chinese Filipino community continues to be one of the most conservative in Southeast Asia regarding simplification. Although major public universities teach in simplified characters, many well-established Chinese schools still use traditional characters. Publications such as
775-700: The original standard forms, they should not be called 'complex'. Conversely, there is a common objection to the description of traditional characters as 'standard', due to them not being used by a large population of Chinese speakers. Additionally, as the process of Chinese character creation often made many characters more elaborate over time, there is sometimes a hesitation to characterize them as 'traditional'. Some people refer to traditional characters as 'proper characters' ( 正字 ; zhèngzì or 正寫 ; zhèngxiě ) and to simplified characters as 簡筆字 ; 简笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'simplified-stroke characters' or 減筆字 ; 减笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'reduced-stroke characters', as
806-825: The predominant forms. Simplified characters as codified by the People's Republic of China are predominantly used in mainland China , Malaysia, and Singapore. "Traditional" as such is a retronym applied to non-simplified character sets in the wake of widespread use of simplified characters. Traditional characters are commonly used in Taiwan , Hong Kong , and Macau , as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia. As for non-Chinese languages written using Chinese characters, Japanese kanji include many simplified characters known as shinjitai standardized after World War II, sometimes distinct from their simplified Chinese counterparts . Korean hanja , still used to
837-627: The traditional character set used in Taiwan ( TC ) and the set used in Hong Kong ( HK ). Most Chinese-language webpages now use Unicode for their text. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends the use of the language tag zh-Hant to specify webpage content written with traditional characters. In the Japanese writing system , kyujitai are traditional forms, which were simplified to create shinjitai for standardized Japanese use following World War II. Kyūjitai are mostly congruent with
868-970: The traditional characters in Chinese, save for minor stylistic variation. Characters that are not included in the jōyō kanji list are generally recommended to be printed in their traditional forms, with a few exceptions. Additionally, there are kokuji , which are kanji wholly created in Japan, rather than originally being borrowed from China. In the Korean writing system , hanja —replaced almost entirely by hangul in South Korea and totally replaced in North Korea —are mostly identical with their traditional counterparts, save minor stylistic variations. As with Japanese, there are autochthonous hanja, known as gukja . Traditional Chinese characters are also used by non-Chinese ethnic groups. The Maniq people living in Thailand and Malaysia use Chinese characters to write
899-509: The ubiquitous Unicode standard gives equal weight to simplified and traditional Chinese characters, and has become by far the most popular encoding for Chinese-language text. There are various input method editors (IMEs) available for the input of Chinese characters . Many characters, often dialectical variants, are encoded in Unicode but cannot be inputted using certain IMEs, with one example being
930-571: The words for simplified and reduced are homophonous in Standard Chinese , both pronounced as jiǎn . The modern shapes of traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty c. 200 BCE , with the sets of forms and norms more or less stable since the Southern and Northern dynasties period c. the 5th century . Although
961-416: Was announced that Wharf Holdings (through Novel Colour Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary) is investing RMB 150 million to form WWE & Company , a social mobile shopping platform technology company. In 2017, The Wharf (Holdings) spun off its real estate portfolio as a sister listed company Wharf Real Estate Investment Company (Wharf REIC). In February 2018, Wharf REIC replaced The Wharf (Holdings) as