Hong Kong

See also: Hongkong, Hong-kong, Hong-Kong, and Hồng Kông

English

Flag of Hong Kong

Alternative forms

• HK
• Hong-Kong, Hong-kong, Honkong (obsolete)
• Hongkong (dated)

Etymology

Corruption of Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong², “Fragrant Harbor”), the former name of a settlement in what is now Aberdeen on the southwest side of Hong Kong Island.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): [hɔŋ˥ kʰɔŋ˥]
• Rhymes: -ɒŋ
• enPR: hǒngʹ kǒngʹ

• Audio (Canada)

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Proper noun

Hong Kong

1. 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 64-7830, OCLC 899031989, 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, Clinton, Bill, My Life‎^[4], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, OCLC 60594427, 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.
2. An island in southeastern China, Hong Kong Island, the site of the city of the same name, lying off Guangdong province.
3. 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.
4. (historical) A colony of the United Kingdom, which previously administered the area of the present-day Chinese special administrative region.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Hsiang Kang, Xianggang (rare)

Derived terms

• Hongkonger, Hong Konger
• Hongkongese
• Hongcouver

Translations

coastal administrative region in south-east China

• Abkhaz: Ҳонқонг (Ḥonkong), Ҳонконг (Ḥonkʼong)
• Afrikaans: Hongkong
• Albanian: Hong Kong
• Amharic: ሆንግ ኮንግ (hong kong)
• Arabic: هُونْغ كُونْغ‎ f (hōnḡ kōnḡ), هُونْج كُونْج‎ f (hōng kōng), هُونْق كُونْق‎ f (hōng kōng)

  Hijazi Arabic: هُونْق كُونْق‎ f (hōng kōng)

• Aragonese: Hong Kong
• Armenian: Հոնկոնգ (Honkong)
• Assamese: হংকং (hoṅkoṅ)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܘܿܢܓ ܟܘܿܢܓ‎‎ f (hong kong)
• Asturian: Hong Kong
• Azerbaijani: Honq Konq, Syanqan
• Bashkir: Гонконг (Gonkong), Һоңкоң (Hoŋkoŋ)
• Basque: Hong Kong
• Belarusian: Ганко́нг m (Hankónh), Сянга́н m (Sjanhán)
• Bengali: হংকং (hôṅkôṅ), হং কং (hôṅ kôṅ)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: হংকং (haṅkaṁ)
• Breton: Hong Kong
• Bulgarian: Хонко́нг m (Honkóng), Сянга́н m (Sjangán), Хонг Конг (bg) m (Hong Kong)
• Burmese: ဟောင်ကောင် (haungkaung)
• Catalan: Hong Kong (ca)
• Cebuano: Hong Kong
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 香港 (yue) (hoeng¹ gong²)

  Hakka: 香港 (Hiông-kóng)

  Mandarin: 香港 (zh) (Xiānggǎng)

  Min Dong: 香港 (Hiŏng-gē̤ng)

  Min Nan: 香港 (zh-min-nan) (Hiong-káng, Hiang-káng)

  Wu: 香港 (xian kaan)

• Cornish: Hong Kong
• Czech: Hongkong (cs) m
• Danish: Hongkong
• Dhivehi: ހޮންކޮންގު‎ (hon̊kon̊gu)
• Dutch: Hongkong (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཧོང་ཀོང (hong kong)
• Esperanto: Honkongo
• Estonian: Hongkong
• Finnish: Hongkong (fi)
• French: Hong Kong (fr) m, Hongkong (fr) m, Xianggang (fr) m
• Georgian: ჰონგკონგი (hongḳongi)
• German: Hongkong (de) n
• Greek: Χονγκ Κονγκ (el) (Chongk Kongk)
• Gujarati: હોંગકોંગ (hoṅgkoṅg)
• Hawaiian: Honokaona
• Hebrew: הונג קונג‎ m (hong kong), הונג־קונג‎ m (hong-kong)
• Hindi: हांग कांग (hāṅg kāṅg), हांगकांग (hāṅgkāṅg), हाँग काँग (hāṅg kāṅg)
• Hong Kong Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: Hongkong (hu)
• Icelandic: Hong Kong
• Ido: Hong Kong
• Ilocano: Hong Kong
• Indonesian: Hong Kong
• Interlingua: Hong Kong
• Irish: Hong Cong
• Italian: Hong Kong f
• Japanese: 香港 (ja) (ホンコン, Honkon), ホンコン (Honkon), シャンガン (Shangan)
• Javanese: Hong Kong
• Kannada: ಹಾಂಗ್ ಕಾಂಗ್ (hāṅg kāṅg)
• Kapampangan: Hong Kong
• Kazakh: Гонконг (Gonkong)
• Khmer: ហុងកុង (km) (hongkong)
• Korean: 홍콩 (ko) (Hongkong), 향항(香港) (Hyanghang)
• Kyrgyz: Гонконг (Gonkong), Сянган (Syangan)
• Lao: ຮ່ອງກົງ (hǭng kong), ຮົງກົງ (hong kong)
• Latin: Hongcongum, Siamkiamum
• Latvian: Honkonga f, Sjangana f
• Ligurian: Hong Kong
• Limburgish: Hong Kong
• Lithuanian: Honkongas (lt) m, Siangangas (lt) m
• Lombard: Hong Kong
• Low German: Hongkong
• Luxembourgish: Hong Kong (lb)
• Lü: ᦶᦌᧂᧈᦅᦱᧂ (saeng¹kaang)
• Macedonian: Хонгконг m (Hongkong)
• Malay: Hong Kong
• Malayalam: ഹോങ്കോങ് (hōṅkōṅŭ)
• Maori: Hongipua
• Marathi: हाँग काँग (hŏṅga kŏṅga)
• Mazanderani: هونگ کونگ‎
• Mongolian: Хонконг (Xonkong), Шианган (Šiangan)
• Nahuatl: Hong Kong
• Norman: Hong Kong m
• Norwegian: Hongkong
• Occitan: Hong Kong
• Oriya: ହଂକଂ (hôṃkôṃ)
• Ossetian: Гонконг (Gonkong)
• Pashto: هانګ کانګ‎ (hāng kāng), هاڼ کاڼ‎ (hāṅ kāṅ)
• Persian: هنگ کنگ‎ (hong kong), هنگ‌کنگ‎ (hong-kong)
• Polish: Hongkong (pl) m
• Portuguese: Hong Kong (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਹਾਂਗ ਕਾਂਗ (hāṅg kāṅg)
• Romanian: Hong Kong
• Russian: Гонко́нг (ru) m (Gonkóng), Сянга́н (ru) m (Sjangán) (very uncommon)
• Samogitian: Huonkuongs
• Santali: ᱦᱚᱝᱠᱚᱝ (hôṅkôṅ)
• Scottish Gaelic: Hong Cong
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хонг Конг m

  Roman: Hong Kong (sh) m

• Sicilian: Hong Kong
• Silesian: Hůngkůng
• Sinhalese: හොංකොං (hoṁkoṁ)
• Slovak: Hongkong m
• Slovene: Hong Kong m
• Spanish: Hong Kong (es) m
• Sundanese: Hong Kong
• Swahili: Hong Kong
• Swedish: Hongkong (sv)
• Tagalog: Hongkong
• Tajik: Гонконг (tg) (Gonkong), Сянган (Syangan)
• Tamil: ஹொங்கொங் (hoṅkoṅ)
• Tatar: Гонконг (Ğonkong), Һоңконг (Hoñkong)
• Telugu: హాంగ్కాంగ్ (hāṅgkāṅg)
• Thai: ฮ่องกง (th) (hɔ̂ng-gong)
• Tibetan: ཞང་ཀང (zhang kang), ཤང་ཀང (shang kang), ཤའང་ཀའང (sha'ng ka'ng)
• Turkish: Hong Kong (tr)
• Turkmen: Sýangan, Gonkong
• Ukrainian: Гонко́нг m (Honkónh), Сянга́н m (Sjanhán), Сянґа́н m (Sjangán)
• Urdu: ہانگ کانگ‎ (hāṅg kāṅg)
• Uyghur: شياڭگاڭ‎ (shyanggang), شاڭگاڭ‎ (shanggang)
• Uzbek: Syangan, Gonkong
• Venetian: Hong Kong
• Vietnamese: Hồng Kông (vi), Hương Cảng (vi) (香港 (vi))
• Welsh: Hong Kong (cy)
• Wolof: Ooŋ Koŋ
• Yakut: Хоҥ Коҥ (Xoŋ Koŋ), Сяҥгаҥ (Syaŋgaŋ)
• Yiddish: האָנג קאָנג‎ n (hong kong), האָנגקאָנג‎ n (hongkong)
• Zazaki: Hong Kong
• Zhuang: Yanghgangj, ^{(please verify)} Homgongj

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Asturian

Proper noun

Hong Kong m

1. Hong Kong (a city, an island and special administrative region in southeastern China)

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Finnish

Proper noun

Hong Kong

1. Alternative spelling of Hongkong, a city, an island and special administrative region in southeastern China

Declension

Inflection of Hong Kong (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
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	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Hong Kongitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Hong Kong (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Hong Kongini	Hong Kongimme
2nd person	Hong Kongisi	Hong Konginne
3rd person	Hong Konginsa

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)}IPA^(key): /ɔ̃ɡ.kɔ̃ɡ/, /ɔŋ.kɔŋ/

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Proper noun

Hong Kong f

1. Hong Kong (a city, an island and special administrative region in southeastern China)

See also

• Hongkong

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Hongkong (dated)
• Honguecongue

Etymology

From Cantonese 香港 (“fragrant harbour”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁõˈkõ/ [ˌhõˈkõ], /ˌʁõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡi/ [ˌhõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁõˈkõ/ [ˌhõˈkõ], /ˌʁõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡi/ [ˌhõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌʁõˈkõ/ [ˌχõˈkõ], /ˌʁõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡi/ [ˌχõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁõˈkõ/ [ˌhõˈkõ], /ˌʁõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡe/ [ˌhõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡe]

Proper noun

Hong Kong f

1. Hong Kong (a city, an island and special administrative region in southeastern China)

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Romanian

Proper noun

Hong Kong n

1. Hong Kong

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• Hongkong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xôŋɡ kôŋɡ/

Proper noun

Hȍng Kȍng m (Cyrillic spelling Хо̏нг Ко̏нг)

1. Hong Kong (a city, an island and special administrative region in southeastern China)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xonˈkon/ [xõŋˈkõn]

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• Rhymes: -on

Proper noun

Hong Kong m

1. Hong Kong (a city, an island, and a special administrative region in southeastern China)

Related terms

• hongkonés

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• Hongkong

Etymology

Borrowed from English Hong Kong, from Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong², “Fragrant Harbor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hoŋˈkoŋ/, [hoŋˈkoŋ]

Proper noun

Hong Kóng

1. Hong Kong (a city, an island and special administrative region in southern China)