Hongkong

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒŋ
  • (file)

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong

  1. Dated form of Hong Kong.
    • 1879 [February 26, 1877], Brassey, Anna, “The Inland Sea”, in A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months[1], Sixth edition, Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing, →OCLC, page 370:
      At 4 a.m. we found ourselves close under the light on the eastern end of the island of Hongkong. We were surrounded by islands, and the morning was dark and thick; so we waited till 5.30, and then steamed on through the Kowloon passage up to the city of Victoria, as it is really named, though it is generally called Hongkong.
    • 1890 February 28, Wetmore, W. S., “RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN CHINA IN THE FIFTIES.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette[2], volume XLIV, number 1178, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 256, column 1; republished as Recollections of Life in the Far East[3], 1894, →OCLC, page 32:
      In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope.
    • 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882[4], London: Luzac & Company, page 127-128:
      Hongkong, and the opposite portion of the mainland of China, known as the Peninsula of Kowloon, together with the few tiny islets situated close inshore (Kellett Island, Stonecutter's Island, Green Island, Tree Island, Aberdeen Middle Island, and Round Island), all of which are at the present day comprised, within the boundaries of the Colony, formed, since time immemorial, a portion of the Kwangtung (Canton) Province. The Island of Hongkong (covering an area of about 29 square miles) is situated, 76 miles of Canton, near the mouth of the Pearl River, the eastern banks of which are lined by the Tungkoon District (24 miles S.E. of Canton city) and the Sanon District (52 miles S.E. of Canton city), of which the Kowloon Peninsula and Kowloon City Promontory from[sic – meaning form] the south-eastern extremities, whilst Hongkong is separated from Kowloon Peninsula by a channel of one nautical mile in width.
    • 1909 August 21, “THE TRUTH ABOUT PRATAS ISLAND”, in The Japan Weekly Mail[5], volume LII, number 8, Yokohama, page 241:
      Thus they went further afield in their depredations, and only last Summer, it will be remembered, a party of Japanese bird-hunters was rescued by a Brazilian training-ship as far south as Wake’s Island, just as their provisions and water had petered out, and were brought on to Hongkong.
    • 1940, Irving S. Friedman, British Relations With China: 1931-1939[6], Institute of Pacific Relations, →OCLC, page 81:
      Reports were common of a Sino-British agreement for British co-operation in the economic development of South China, including British financing of a railway in Hainan, the establishment of an airdrome on Tungsha Island southeast of Hongkong, an oil depot in the Sesha Islands southwest of Hainan, and the development of mines in South China.
    • 1979 April 29, “'Fifth modernization'”, in Free China Weekly[7], volume XX, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
      Human rights advocate Wei Ching-sheng was arrested in Peiping's recent crackdown on dissidents according to a report from Hongkong.
    • 1993 [October 1, 1992], Hau, Pei-tsun, “Stability, Democracy, the Rule of Law, Development, and Reunification”, in Straight Talk[8], Taipei: Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:
      The ROCs set policy stipulates that ROC agencies will not be withdrawn from Hong Kong after 1997 and will continue helping our compatriots in Hongkong to maintain a free and democratic lifestyle.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hongkong.

Further reading[edit]

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong m

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

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Hongkong in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • Hongkong in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish[edit]

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia da

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong

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

Finnish[edit]

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fi

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Cantonese 香港 (hoeng1 gong2).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈhoŋkoŋː/, [ˈho̞ŋko̞ŋː]
  • Rhymes: -oŋkoŋː
  • Syllabification(key): Hong‧kong

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong

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

Declension[edit]

Inflection of Hongkong (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative Hongkong
genitive Hongkongin
partitive Hongkongia
illative Hongkongiin
singular plural
nominative Hongkong
accusative nom. Hongkong
gen. Hongkongin
genitive Hongkongin
partitive Hongkongia
inessive Hongkongissa
elative Hongkongista
illative Hongkongiin
adessive Hongkongilla
ablative Hongkongilta
allative Hongkongille
essive Hongkongina
translative Hongkongiksi
instructive
abessive Hongkongitta
comitative
Possessive forms of Hongkong (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person Hongkongini Hongkongimme
2nd person Hongkongisi Hongkonginne
3rd person Hongkonginsa

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong ?

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

German[edit]

German Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia de

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong n (proper noun, genitive Hongkongs or (optionally with an article) Hongkong)

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

Hungarian[edit]

 Hongkong on Hungarian Wikipedia

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈhoŋkoŋɡ]
  • Hyphenation: Hong‧kong
  • Rhymes: -oŋɡ

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong

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

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Hongkong
accusative Hongkongot
dative Hongkongnak
instrumental Hongkonggal
causal-final Hongkongért
translative Hongkonggá
terminative Hongkongig
essive-formal Hongkongként
essive-modal
inessive Hongkongban
superessive Hongkongon
adessive Hongkongnál
illative Hongkongba
sublative Hongkongra
allative Hongkonghoz
elative Hongkongból
delative Hongkongról
ablative Hongkongtól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Hongkongé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Hongkongéi
Possessive forms of Hongkong
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Hongkongom
2nd person sing. Hongkongod
3rd person sing. Hongkongja
1st person plural Hongkongunk
2nd person plural Hongkongotok
3rd person plural Hongkongjuk

Derived terms[edit]

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong m inan

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

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

adjective
nouns

Further reading[edit]

  • Hongkong in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Hongkong in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong f

  1. Dated spelling of Hong Kong., a city, an island and special administrative region in southeastern China

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sh

Alternative forms[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong m (Cyrillic spelling Хонгконг)

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

Swedish[edit]

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkong n (genitive Hongkongs)

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

Tagalog[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /hoŋˈkoŋ/, [hoŋˈkoŋ]

Proper noun[edit]

Hongkóng

  1. Alternative spelling of Hong Kong