Chek Hom

English Alternative forms en Chekhom Etymology From en yue - 赤坎 cek3 ham3. Proper noun 1 en Chikan. en 1884 April January 25, 1884 F. W. Damon Rambles in China No. 4 https://archive.org/details/friend3641unse/ The Friend (Quaker magazine) The Friend Honolulu 33 4 0016-1268 699526372 29 https://archive.org/details/friend3641unse/page/29/ Our last halting place was for the Sabbath at the town of Chek Hom in the district of Hoi Peng, where there is a small but flourishing, self-supporting church now started under the auspices of the Presbyterian Mission. en 1978 Eleanor Wong Telemaque It's Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota https://archive.org/details/itscrazytostaych0000tele/ Thomas Nelson (publisher) Thomas Nelson 0-8407-6613-0 78-14054 4453454 70 https://archive.org/details/itscrazytostaych0000tele/page/70/ She tracked down the home village of every woman who came, she remembered every temple, every store, and every road in a place called Chek Hom, where they had brought the pigs to market. en 1994 w:Ben Fong-Torres The Rice Room: a Memoir of Growing up Chinese-American https://archive.org/details/riceroomgrowingu00fong/ w:Hyperion Books 0-7868-6002-2 93-28111 1037366276 246 https://archive.org/details/riceroomgrowingu00fong/page/246/ As we entered Chek Hom—my mother's village—the portraits my parents had drawn vanished into the dusty air, replaced by actual people, deeply lined and tanned, going about their business in town. en