Chek Hom

English

Alternative forms

• Chekhom

Etymology

From Cantonese 赤坎 (cek3 ham3).

Proper noun

Chek Hom

1. Dated form of Chikan.
   • 1884 April [1884 January 25], F. W. Damon, “Rambles in China No. 4”, in The Friend‎^[1], volume 33, number 4, Honolulu, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:

     Our last halting place was for the Sabbath at the town of Chek Hom in the district of Hoi Peng, where there is a small but flourishing, self-supporting church now started under the auspices of the Presbyterian Mission.

   • 1978, Eleanor Wong Telemaque, It's Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota‎^[2], Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:

     She tracked down the home village of every woman who came, she remembered every temple, every store, and every road in a place called Chek Hom, where they had brought the pigs to market.

   • 1994, Ben Fong-Torres, The Rice Room: a Memoir of Growing up Chinese-American‎^[3], Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 246:

     As we entered Chek Hom—my mother's village—the portraits my parents had drawn vanished into the dusty air, replaced by actual people, deeply lined and tanned, going about their business in town.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chek Hom.