CHINESE NAMES OF STREETS, &c. 



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Chinese Characters. 



Remarks as to Meaning 







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'■ Board of works' office.' 



' Chief big dog's office or Chief Inspector's 

 office.' 



(Pelice officers are apparently all ' dogs', for 

 all those above the rank of Sergeant are 

 called ' big dogs ' : the Cantonese use 

 another idiom : ' foreman ', the same 

 word as is used in speaking of an 

 oveiseer or mandore. ) 



(i) 'Letteroffice.' 



(ii) ' Big letter-office.' 



' Fire-caxriage head.' 



'Big Court.' 



('Kok' or ' Kot ' is not Chinese, but an 

 imitation of ' Court'.) 



(i) ' Beeide Nam Seng flower garden.' 

 (Nam Seng was the chop of the Chinaman 

 known to Europeans in Singapore as 

 as Whampoa, i.e. Mr. Ho ah Kee C. M. 

 G., former owner of the property known 

 as Bendemeer on Serangoon Road. ) 



(ii) ' Sore feet (or legs) building.' 



(iii) < Broken leg office'. 



R. A. Soc, No. 42, 1904. 



