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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Cantonese 香港 (hoeng1 gong2, “fragrant harbor”)[1], the former name of a settlement in what is now Aberdeen on the southwest side of Hong Kong Island.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌhɔŋˈkɔŋ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˌhɑŋˈkɑŋ/
- (Hong Kong) IPA(key): [hɔŋ˥ kʰɔŋ˥]
- Rhymes: -ɒŋ
- enPR: hǒngʹ kǒngʹ
Audio (Canada): (file)
Proper noun[edit]
Hong Kong
- A city in southeastern China, located on an island east of the Pearl River delta in the South China Sea; formerly owned by the United Kingdom.
- 1850 December, “Foreign News”, in The Gentleman's Magazine[2], volume XXXIV, London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, page 645:
- CHINA.
A rebellion of more than ordinary importance is in progress in this country. At the departure of the last mail from Hong Kong numerous bands of robbers were plundering and burning throughout the provinces of Kangsi and Canton, and, having captured the city of Kintschan, had advanced to within 120 English miles of Canton.
- 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants[3], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 78–79:
- In 1962 a special law had to be passed to permit the immigration of several thousand Chinese refugees who had escaped from Communist China to Hong Kong.
- 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life[4], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 437:
- The Chinese had promised to let Hong Kong keep its much more democratic political system, but I had the clear impression that the details of their reunion were still being worked out, and that neither side was fully satisfied with the present state of affairs.
- 2022 May 11, “Reports: Hong Kong arrests Roman Catholic cardinal, 3 others”, in AP News[5], archived from the original on 12 May 2022:
- A 90-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal, a singer and at least two others have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger China’s national security, in an action widely condemned as a further sign of Beijing’s erosion of rights in the city.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hong Kong.
- An island in southeastern China, Hong Kong Island, the site of the city of the same name, lying off Guangdong (Canton) province.
- 2016, Carolyn Phillips, “The Coastal Southeast”, in All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China[6], Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 189:
- Sampans and punts crowded the tight harbors of places like Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island, and these fisherfolk cooked up the day’s catch for their customers on the most minimal of stoves.
- 2019 April 17, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, “House Hunting in … Hong Kong”, in The New York Times[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-17, Real Estate[8]:
- This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment is in the western section of Mid-Levels, an affluent residential area built into the northern slope of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.
- A special administrative region of China, which includes the city and island of the same name as well as nearby islands and the Kowloon Peninsula.
- (historical) A colony of the United Kingdom, which previously administered the area of the present-day Chinese special administrative region.
Synonyms[edit]
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Hsiang Kang, Xianggang (rare)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
coastal administrative region in south-east China
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See also[edit]
| Provinces: Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang |
| Autonomous regions: Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang |
| Municipalities: Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing |
| Special administrative regions: Hong Kong · Macau |
References[edit]
- ^ Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hong Kong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[1], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1304, column 1: “Hong Kong, Mandarin Xiang-gang [Mandarin=fragrant harbor] […]”
Asturian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)
Finnish[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Hong Kong
- Alternative spelling of Hongkong, a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China
Declension[edit]
| Inflection of Hong Kong (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Hong Kong | — | ||
| genitive | Hong Kongin | — | ||
| partitive | Hong Kongia | — | ||
| illative | Hong Kongiin | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Hong Kong | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Hong Kong | — | |
| gen. | Hong Kongin | |||
| genitive | Hong Kongin | — | ||
| partitive | Hong Kongia | — | ||
| inessive | Hong Kongissa | — | ||
| elative | Hong Kongista | — | ||
| illative | Hong Kongiin | — | ||
| adessive | Hong Kongilla | — | ||
| ablative | Hong Kongilta | — | ||
| allative | Hong Kongille | — | ||
| essive | Hong Kongina | — | ||
| translative | Hong Kongiksi | — | ||
| abessive | Hong Kongitta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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French[edit]
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- Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)
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Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Cantonese 香港 (hoeng1 gong2, “fragrant harbour”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)
Romanian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
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Hȍng Kȍng m (Cyrillic spelling Хо̏нг Ко̏нг)
- Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “Hong Kong” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN
Tagalog[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English Hong Kong, from Cantonese 香港 (hoeng1 gong2, “Fragrant Harbor”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˌhoŋ ˈkoŋ/ [ˌhoŋ ˈkoŋ]
- Rhymes: -oŋ
- Syllabification: Hong Kong
Proper noun[edit]
Hong Kong (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜅ᜔ ᜃᜓᜅ᜔)
- Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southern China)
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- tl:Hong Kong
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