English Explanatory Dictionary

cohong

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A guild of Chinese merchants or hongs who operated the import-export monopoly in Canton (present-day Guangzhou) during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).

Word forms

cohong cohongs gonghang
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