Hong Kong

Hongkong Hong-kong Hong-Kong Hồng Kông English thumb|Flag of Hong Kong Alternative forms en HK initialism en Hong-Kong Hong-kong Honkong obsolete en Hongkong dated Etymology en city :bor yue:香港<id:Hong Kong><lit:incense harbor> An irregular romanization of en yue 香港 incense harbor,en 1998 Hong Kong Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1304 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1304/ 1 Hong Kong, Mandarin Xiang-gang [Mandarin=incense harbor] the former name of a settlement in what is now Aberdeen on the southwest side of Hong Kong Island, where joss stick incense was stored for export, made from agarwood. Pronunciation en /ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/ UK en /ˌhɔŋˈkɔŋ/ GA en /ˌhɑŋˈkɑŋ/ cot-caught en [hɔŋ˥ kʰɔŋ˥] HK en ɒŋ 2 hŏng′ kŏng′Hong Kong 323 1 hông′ kông′Hong Kong 798 2 en En-ca-Hong Kong.oga Canada Proper noun 1 en Q8646en city/and/special administrative region in southern c/China located on an island east of the Pearl River delta in the South China Sea; a former British colony a <<city>>, <<island>> and <<special administrative region>> in southeastern <<c/China>>. en https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz96unkngoog/page/n616/ 1850 December Foreign News w:The Gentleman's Magazine XXXIV London John Bowyer Nichols and Son 645 https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz216unkngoog/page/n704/ 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. en 1964 w:John F. Kennedy w:A Nation of Immigrants https://archive.org/details/nationofimmigran0000kenn/ Revised and Enlarged w:Harper & Row 64-7830 899031989 78–79 https://archive.org/details/nationofimmigran0000kenn/page/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. en 2005 w:Bill Clinton My Life (Clinton autobiography) My Life https://archive.org/details/mylifepresidenti00clin/ II New York w:Vintage Books 1-4000-9673-1 60594427 437 https://archive.org/details/mylifepresidenti00clin/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. en May 11, 2022 Reports: Hong Kong arrests Roman Catholic cardinal, 3 others https://web.archive.org/web/20220511133443/https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-religion-china-arrests-beijing-63d20b3a98288c10f610311b52ecd5a6 12 May 2022 w:AP News 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. en en Q19483 en island in southeastern c/China, Hong Kong Island, the site of the city of the same name, lying off Guangdong (Canton) province. en 2016 Carolyn Phillips The Coastal Southeast All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China https://archive.org/details/allunderheavenre0000phil/ w:Ten Speed Press 978-1-60774-982-0 2015029244 915120228 189 https://archive.org/details/allunderheavenre0000phil/page/189/ Sampans and punts crowded the tight harbors of places like Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island, and these fisherfolk cooked up the day’s catch for their customers on the most minimal of stoves. en April 17, 2019 Marcelle Sussman Fischler House Hunting in … Hong Kong w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20190417151712/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/realestate/house-hunting-in-hong-kong.html 0362-4331 1645522 Real Estate This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment is in the western section of Mid-Levels, an affluent residential area built into the northern slope of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. en special administrative region c/China, which includes the city and island of the same name as well as nearby islands and the Kowloon Peninsula. en Q1054923en historical en A <<former>> British <<colony>> in 1843–1941 and 1945–1981 and then <<former dependent territory:British Dependent Territory>> in 1981–1997 in modern southern <<c/China>> in the area of modern Hong Kong. Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Hsiang Kang Hsiang-kang Xianggang Hsiang-chiang Xiangjiang rare Derived terms en Hong Kong finish Hong Kong foot Hong Kong Sign Language Hong Kong Time Hong Konger,Hongkonger Hong Kongese,Hongkongese Hong Kongite Hong Kongite,Hongkongite Hongapore Hongcouver Hongkie Hongkongness Kongish Konglish Translations coastal administrative region in south-east China Q8646 Abkhaz: ab Ҳонқонг, ab Ҳонконг Afrikaans: af Hongkong Albanian: sq Hong Kong Amharic: am ሆንግ ኮንግ Arabic: ar هُونْغ كُونْغ f hōnḡ kōnḡ, ar هُونْج كُونْج f hōng kōng, ar هُونْق كُونْق f hōng kōng Hijazi Arabic: acw هُونْق كُونْق f hōng kōng Aragonese: an Hong Kong Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܗܘܿܢܓ ܟܘܿܢܓ f hong kong Armenian: hy Հոնկոնգ Assamese: as হংকং Asturian: ast Ḥong Kong Azerbaijani: az Honq Konq, az Syanqan Bashkir: ba Гонконг, ba Һоңкоң Basque: eu Hong Kong Belarusian: be Ганко́нг m, be Сянга́н m Bengali: bn হংকং, bn হং কং Breton: br Hong Kong Bulgarian: bg Хонко́нг m, bg Сянга́н m, bg Хонг Конг m Burmese: my ဟောင်ကောင် Catalan: ca Hong Kong Cebuano: ceb Hong Kong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 香港 Eastern Min: cdo 香港 Hakka: hak 香港 Hiông-kóng Hokkien: nan-hbl 香港 Hiong-káng, Hiang-káng Mandarin: cmn 香港 Wu: wuu 香港 Cornish: kw Hong Kong Czech: cs Hongkong m Danish: da Hongkong Dhivehi: dv ހޮންކޮންގު Dutch: nl Hongkong n Dzongkha: dz ཧོང་ཀོང Esperanto: eo Honkongo Estonian: et Hongkong Finnish: fi Hongkong French: fr Hong Kong m, fr Hongkong m, fr Xianggang m Georgian: ka ჰონგკონგი German: de Hongkong n Greek: el Χονγκ Κονγκ Gujarati: gu હોંગકોંગ Hawaiian: haw Honokaona Hebrew: he הונג קונג m hong kong, he הונג־קונג m hong-kong Hindi: hi हांग कांग f, hi हांगकांग, hi हाँग काँग Hong Kong Sign Language: hks Hungarian: hu Hongkong Icelandic: is Hong Kong Ido: io Hong Kong Ilocano: ilo Hong Kong Indonesian: id Hong Kong Interlingua: ia Hong Kong Irish: ga Hong Cong Italian: it Hong Kong f Japanese: ja 香港 ホンコン, Honkon, ja ホンコン Honkon, ja シャンガン Shangan Javanese: jv Hong Kong Kannada: kn ಹಾಂಗ್ ಕಾಂಗ್ Kapampangan: pam Hong Kong Kazakh: kk Гонконг Khmer: km ហុងកុង Korean: ko ^홍콩, ko ^향항(香港) Kyrgyz: ky Гонконг, ky Сянган Lao: lo ຮ່ອງກົງ, lo ຮົງກົງ Latin: la Hongcongum, la Siamkiamum Latvian: lv Honkonga f, lv Sjangana f Ligurian: lij Hong Kong Limburgish: li Hong Kong Lithuanian: lt Honkongas m, lt Siangangas m Lombard: lmo Hong Kong Low German: nds Hongkong Lü: khb ᦶᦌᧂᧈᦅᦱᧂ Luxembourgish: lb Hong Kong Macedonian: mk Хонгконг m Malay: ms Hong Kong Malayalam: ml ഹോങ്കോങ് Manchu: mnc ᡥᡳᠶᠠᠩ ᡤᠠᠩ Manipuri: Bishnupriya Manipuri: bpy হংকং haṅkaṁ Māori: mi Hongipua Marathi: mr हाँग काँग Mazanderani: mzn هونگ کونگ Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Хонконг, mn Шианган Mongolian script: mn ᠬᠣᠩᠺᠣᠩ, mn ᠱᠢᠶᠠᠩᠭᠠᠩ Nahuatl: nah Hong Kong Navajo: nv Shádiʼááhjí Tsiiʼyishbizhí Bikin Haalʼá Norman: nrf Hong Kong m Norwegian: no Hongkong Occitan: oc Hong Kong Odia: or ହଂକଂ Ossetian: os Гонконг Pashto: ps هانګ کانګ hāng kāng, ps هاڼ کاڼ hāṅ kāṅ Persian: fa هنگ کنگ hong kong, fa هنگ‌کنگ hong-kong Polish: pl Hongkong m Portuguese: pt Hong Kong f Punjabi: pa ਹਾਂਗ ਕਾਂਗ Romanian: ro Hong Kong Russian: ru Гонко́нг m, ru Сянга́н m very uncommon Samogitian: sgs Huonkuongs Santali: sat ᱦᱚᱝᱠᱚᱝ Scottish Gaelic: gd Hong Cong Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Хонг Конг m Latin: sh Hong Kong m Sicilian: scn Hong Kong Silesian: szl Hůngkůng Sinhalese: si හොංකොං Slovak: sk Hongkong m Slovene: sl Hong Kong m Spanish: es Hong Kong m Sundanese: su Hong Kong Swahili: sw Hong Kong Swedish: sv Hongkong Tagalog: tl Hongkong Tajik: tg Гонконг, tg Сянган Tamil: ta ஹொங்கொங் Tatar: tt Гонконг, tt Һоңконг Telugu: te హాంగ్కాంగ్ Thai: th ฮ่องกง Tibetan: bo ཞང་ཀང, bo ཤང་ཀང, bo ཤའང་ཀའང Turkish: tr Hong Kong Turkmen: tk Sýangan, tk Gonkong Ukrainian: uk Гонко́нг m, uk Сянга́н m, uk Сянґа́н m Urdu: ur ہانگ کانگ hāṅg kāṅg Uyghur: ug شياڭگاڭ, ug شاڭگاڭ Uzbek: uz Syangan, uz Gonkong Venetan: vec Hong Kong Vietnamese: vi Hồng Kông, vi Hồng Công, vi Hương Cảng (vi 香港) Welsh: cy Hong Kong, cy Hong Cong Wolof: wo Ooŋ Koŋ Yakut: sah Хоҥ Коҥ, sah Сяҥгаҥ Yiddish: yi האָנג קאָנג n, yi האָנגקאָנג n Zazaki: zza Hong Kong Zhuang: za Yanghgangj, za Homgongj See also References Finnish Proper noun Hong Kong fi Hongkong: fi Hong Kong Q8646 Declension sg Hong Kong a 0 French Pronunciation Hongue-Kongue Hoŋ-Koŋ fr Fr-Hong Kong.ogg fr Fr-Paris--Hong Kong.ogg Paris fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-Hong Kong.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>) Proper noun f fr Hong Kong Q8646 See also fr Hongkong Portuguese pt: Alternative forms pt Hongkong dated pt Honguecongue pronunciation spelling rare Etymology pt :ubor en:Hong Kong :yue Pronunciation rôncôm,rôncôngue,rônguicôngue ôncông Proper noun mfequiv hong-konguês 1 pt Hong Kong Q8646 Romanian Proper noun n ro Hong Kong Q8646 Scottish Gaelic gd: Etymology gd en Hong Kong, from gd yue - 香港 hoeng1 gong2. Proper noun m ~ gd Hong Kong Q8646 gd Hong Cong Serbo-Croatian sh: Alternative forms sh Hongkong Latn Pronunciation Hȍng Kȍng Proper noun Hȍng Kȍng m-in sh Hong Kong Q8646 Spanish es: Alternative forms es Hong-Kong Hong-kong Pronunciation joncón<audio:LL-Q1321 (spa)-Rodelar-Hong Kong.wav<a:Spain>> + Proper noun ? es Hong Kong Q8646 Related terms es hongkonés Further reading Tagalog Alternative forms tl Hongkong Etymology tl es Hong Kong, from tl en Hong Kong, from tl yue 香港 Incense Harbor. Pronunciation Proper noun Hong Kong + tl Hong Kong Q8646