Choi Wan Estate

"Choi Wan" redirects here. For other uses, see Choi-wan.

Choi Wan Estate (Chinese: 彩雲邨) is a public housing estate in Ngau Chi Wan, Wong Tai Sin District,^[1] Kowloon, Hong Kong, located between Ngau Chi Wan Village and Jordan Valley and the foot of Fei Ngo Shan.^[2] The estate is divided into Choi Wan (I) Estate (彩雲(一)邨) and Choi Wan (II) Estate (彩雲(二)邨), and has a total of 21 blocks.^[3] It is one of the largest public housing estates in Wong Tai Sin District.

Choi Wan Estate
Choi Wan Estate
Traditional Chinese	彩雲邨
Simplified Chinese	彩雲邨
Cantonese Yale	chói wàhn chyūn
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Cǎiyún Cūn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization chói wàhn chyūn Jyutping coi2 wan4 cyun1

Background

Choi Wan Estate was the site of Ngau Chi Wan Village. Its name Choi Wan fits its geographical position because "Wan" (i.e. Choi Wan Estate, "Wan" means cloud in Cantonese) is above "Hung" (i.e. Choi Hung Estate, "Hung" means rainbow in Cantonese). The estate started construction in 1976 and finished in 1979.

Choi Wan Estate is one of the few public housing estates in Hong Kong which blocks are not named with character in the estate name (i.e. "Choi" or "Wan"). Instead, the blocks are named based on the Chinese astronomical matters, for instance, Ngan Ho House (銀河樓, lit. galaxy house) and Koon Yat House (觀日樓, "Koon Yat" meaning "viewing the sun").^[4] The estate is also the namesake for the northwestern Pacific Ocean tropical cyclone name Choi-wan.

Houses

Choi Wan (I) Estate

Name^[5]	Type	Completion
Koon Yat House	Double H	1979
Boon Yuet House
King San House	Old Slab	1980
Pak Hung House	Double H
Cheung Bor House
Ngan Ho House
Sau Man House
Chi Siu House
Fei Fung House
Yau Lung House
Yat Yuet House
Sing San House
Sze Yu House
Kam Lam House
Pak Fung House		1981
Yuk Lun House

Choi Wan (II) Estate

Name^[6]	Type	Completion
Fung Chak House	Twin Tower	1978
Ming Lai House
Kai Fai House
Yok Yu House	Double H	1979
King Kung House

Choi Fai Estate

Choi Fai Estate (Chinese: 彩輝邨) is a public housing estate in Ngau Chi Wan, at the upper hill above Choi Wan Estate and the foot of Fei Ngo Shan.^[7] It has only 2 blocks built in 1995.^[8]

Houses

Name^[9]	Type	Completion
Choi Wah House	Harmony 1	1995
Choi Yip House

Choi Fung Court

Choi Fung Court (Chinese: 彩峰苑) is a Home Ownership Scheme court in Ngau Chi Wan, near Choi Wan (I) Estate. It has one block built in 1997.

Houses

Name^[10]	Type	Completion
Choi Fung Court	Harmony	1997

Education

Choi Wan Estate, Choi Fai Estate, and Choi Fung Court are in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 45. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government primary schools are in this net.^[11]

See others

• Ngau Chi Wan
• Choi Hung Estate

References

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Choi Wan Estate.

1. Wong Tai Sin District 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
2. Choi Wan Estate
4. 彩雲邨及彩輝邨 (Chinese) 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
5. Choi Wan (I) Estate 2009-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
6. Choi Wan (II) Estate 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
7. Tsz Wan Shan Integrated Family Service Centre
8. Choi Fai Estate
9. Choi Fai Estate 2009-04-06 at the Wayback Machine
10. Choi Fung Court 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
11. "POA School Net 45" (PDF). Education Bureau. Retrieved 2022-09-12.

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