Macao

macao mação Mação English thumb|Map including MACAU MACAO (PORTUGAL) (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1975) Proper noun en Macau: en Macau Q14773 ## en October 7, 2019 Joe Vardon Daryl Morey, Joseph Tsai, the NBA and China: Why the repercussions of a tweet are about more than money https://web.archive.org/web/20250309091844/https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/1274341/2019/10/07/daryl-morey-joseph-tsai-the-nba-and-china-why-the-repercussions-of-a-tweet-are-about-more-than-money/ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/1274341/2019/10/07/daryl-morey-joseph-tsai-the-nba-and-china-why-the-repercussions-of-a-tweet-are-about-more-than-money/ March 09, 2025 The Athletic Hong Kong, once a British colony, was transferred to Chinese rule in 1997. Referring to Hong Kong or Macao or any Chinese territory as anything other than part of China is a major offense to the Chinese government, which sanctions businesses that make the mistake. In the past several months, Gap, Versace, and Coach have all been rebuked by the Chinese government for doing this very thing. en Macau Q3916279 ## en 1684 Edm. Halley A Theory of the Tides at the Bar of Tunking Philosophical Transactions https://books.google.com/books?id=1sJeAAAAcAAJ XIV Oxford 919493643 687 https://books.google.com/books?id=1sJeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA687 It would be however a very acceptable thing if ſome curious Navigators would inform us, what tides or Currents are found at Macao, Quemoy, and other places on the Coast of China and on Formoa ; it being moſt probable that this flood cometh out of the North Eaſt, alongſt the Coaſt of China, for that the Northerly Moonsoon is found to occaſion the higheſt ſpring-tides. en 1701 Joan Luyts; w:Herman Moll A System of Geography, Part the Second https://archive.org/details/systemofgeograph00moll/ London 6460837 52 https://archive.org/details/systemofgeograph00moll/page/52/ Macao is a ſmall Iſland in the Bay of Quantung, a Province of China, at a little diſtance from it ; in which is a Town bearing the ſame Name, heretofore the moſt famous and wealthy Mart of the Portugueſes, and granted to them by the Chineſes ; but its Reputation is now a great deal leſs :[...] en https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.18240/ 1784 Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean w:James Cook; James King (Royal Navy officer) James King IV London w:John Stockdale 211–213 https://archive.org/details/b28772672_0004/page/210/ Captain King began now to entertain apprehenſions, leſt, in the proſecution of our ſearch for thoſe iſlands, we ſhould get ſo far to the ſouth as to be under the neceſſity of paſſing to leeward of the Pratas ; in which caſe, it might have proved extremely difficult for ſuch bad ſailing veſſels as our to fetch Macao, eſpecially if the wind ſhould continue to blow (as it now did) from the north-north-eaſt and north. en https://archive.org/details/macaoholycitygem00ballrich/ 1905 Macao: The Holy City; The Gem of the Orient Earth James Dyer Ball J. Dyer Ball China Baptist Publication Society 1 The Portuguese Colony of Macao is situated on a rocky peninsula in the Heung Shan (Fragrant Hills) District in the Kwong Chau Prefecture of the Kwong Tung, or Canton Province, in the south eastern part of the Empire of China. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-03-09_16_9/ March 9, 1975 Soong Mei-ling Mme. Chiang warns against detente Free China Weekly XVI 9 Taipei 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-03-09_16_9/ The First Lady charged that the Maoists are making use of the Portuguese, through their small enclave of Macao, to carry out trade in drugs that are aimed in enslaving and demoralizing the people of the free world. She said the narcotics trade also is providing Chinese Communist leaders with a major source of revenue for use in carrying out their subversive, revolutionary tactics in other countries. en https://archive.org/details/macao00will/ 1988 Macao T. Jeff Williams w:Chelsea House 15 The territory of Macao is made up of a small peninsula on the Chinese coast and two neighboring islands. Located at the mouth of the Pearl River, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) from the Chinese city of Canton, Macao was once a safe harbor for Chinese fishermen. en 1994 Jimmy M. Skaggs Shoveling It: Life and Labor on Guano Islands The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion https://books.google.com/books?id=exaKQgAACAAJ New York w:St. Martin's Griffin 0-312-10316-6 93-26784 933756807 162 Prostrate from opium wars and divided into spheres of European influence, China was unable to protect her citizens from Occidentals who seduced them to immigrate. Poor, illiterate Chinese peasants—especially at Macao after the British Passenger Act (1855) drove the "coolie trade" from Hong Kong—were easily duped by foreigners who promised them better lives, often in the gold fields of California, once indentures of four to five years had been satisfied. en Derived terms en Macaoese References pn Anagrams en aacmo AACOM Acoma French fr: Pronunciation fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-Macao.wav <<France>> (<<Brétigny-sur-Orge>>) Proper noun m fr Macau Q14773 Derived terms fr macanais fr Macanais German de: Pronunciation de /maˈkao̯/ de De-Macao.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun de proper noun n de Macau Q14773 Polish Etymology pl pt Macao, from pl nan-hbl -. See pt Macau for more info. Pronunciation makao LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-Macao.wav makao Ma.ca.o Proper noun n yes pl Makau: pl Macau Q14773 Further reading pl exonyms Portuguese Proper noun m Macau 11 43 Usage notes This word was frequently written with an accent: Macáo. Spanish es: Alternative forms es Macau es Macan Macán Machan Machao Machaun es a-elided obsolete es Amacao Amachan obsolete Etymology es :bor pt:Macau<id:place in China> From es pt Macau, from es nan-hbl -. See pt Macau for more info. Pronunciation +<audio:LL-Q1321 (spa)-Rodelar-Macao.wav<a:Spain>> Proper noun ? es Macau Q14773 Derived terms es macaense macanista Descendants tl Makaw 1 Further reading Tagalog Pronunciation Macáo Proper noun Macáo makaw tl Makaw: tl Macau Q14773 References