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香港

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Chinese

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fragrant
good-smelling
incense
harbour
trad. (香港)
simp. #(香港)
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Etymology

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The name 香港 first appeared on a map in 粵大記 [1595] as a label for an island that seems to be Ap Lei Chau. In the two Gazetteer of Xin'an County (新安縣志) published in 1688 and 1819, 香港 was the name of a village (as 香港). The village was likely located in Wong Chuk Hang in the south of Hong Kong Island as indicated by 19th-century maps.

18th-century western maps appear to render the name of Hong Kong Island as Fan Chin Chow (or its variants), which appears to be a Hakka romanization of 飯甑 (Kwok and Cheung, 2007). In the Treaty of Nanking signed in 1842, the name 香港 referred to the entire Hong Kong Island.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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香港

  1. (~特別行政區) Hong Kong (a city and special administrative region of China)
  2. (~島) Hong Kong Island (an island in Hong Kong)
  3. () (historical) Hong Kong (a former village in the south of Hong Kong Island)

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (香港):
  • Korean: 향항(香港) (Hyanghang)
  • Vietnamese: Hương Cảng (香港)

Others:

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
ほん
Grade: 4
こん
Grade: 3
irregular
 香港 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

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From English Hong Kong, ultimately from Cantonese 香港 (hoeng1 gong2).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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香港(ホンコン) (Hon Kon

  1. Hong Kong
    (ちゅう)()(じん)(みん)(きょう)()(こく)(ホン)(コン)(とく)(べつ)(ぎょう)(せい)()
    Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku Hon Kon Tokubetsu Gyōseiku
    the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China

References

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  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Proper noun

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香港 (Hyanghang) (hangeul 향항)

  1. hanja form? of 향항 (Hong Kong)

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Proper noun

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香港

  1. chữ Hán form of Hương Cảng (Hong Kong).