Hong Kong

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EtymologyEdit

From the 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.

PronunciationEdit

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

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, →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, Clinton, Bill, 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.
  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.

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 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] []

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Proper nounEdit

Hong Kong m

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

FinnishEdit

Proper nounEdit

Hong Kong

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

DeclensionEdit

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

FrenchEdit

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Hong Kong f

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

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PortugueseEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Cantonese 香港 (hoeng1 gong2, fragrant harbour).

PronunciationEdit

 
  • (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]

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Hong Kong f

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

RomanianEdit

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Hong Kong n

  1. Hong Kong

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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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Hong Kong m

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

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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /hoŋˈkoŋ/, [hoŋˈkoŋ]

Proper nounEdit

Hong Kóng

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