hong

See also: hōng, hóng, hőng, hǒng, hòng, hông, hồng, Hong, and Høng

EnglishEdit

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Hong (business)

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PronunciationEdit

Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Etymology 1Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

VerbEdit

hong

(obsolete) past tense of hang
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,
  From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong

Etymology 2Edit

From Cantonese 行 (hong4, “trade, business”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Could someone with knowledge of Cantonese verify this etymology? Is it a shortening of 洋行”)

NounEdit

hong (plural hongs)

A foreign trading company in China.
- 1935, William Ukers, All About Tea
  In this partly manufactured state they are sold to collectors, who re-sell them to tea hongs, or factories, and these hongs in turn resell to middlemen, who supply the foreign exporter.

AnagramsEdit

Gohn

IrishEdit

NounEdit

hong m

h-prothesized form of ong

VerbEdit

hong

h-prothesized form of ong

LudianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *honka. Cognates include Finnish honka.

NounEdit

hong

forest pine

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

hong

Nonstandard spelling of hōng.
Nonstandard spelling of hóng.
Nonstandard spelling of hǒng.
Nonstandard spelling of hòng.

Usage notesEdit

English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.