English Explanatory Dictionary

Hong Kong

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A city and special administrative region in southeastern China, located on an island east of the Pearl River delta in the South China Sea; a former British colony.
  2. An island in southeastern China, Hong Kong Island, the site of the city of the same name, lying off Guangdong (Canton) province.
  3. A special administrative region of China, which includes the city and island of the same name as well as nearby islands and the Kowloon Peninsula.
  4. A former British colony in 1843–1941 and 1945–1981 and then British Dependent Territory in 1981–1997 in modern southern China in the area of modern Hong Kong.

Pronunciation

/ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/ /ˌhɔŋˈkɔŋ/ /ˌhɑŋˈkɑŋ/ [hɔŋ˥ kʰɔŋ˥] hǒngʹ kǒngʹ En-ca-Hong Kong.oga

Word forms

Hong Kong HK Hong-Kong Honkong Hongkong

Etymology

Etymology tree Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong²)bor. English Hong Kong An irregular romanization of Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong², “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.

Synonyms

Hsiang Kang Hsiang-kang Xianggang Hsiang-chiang Xiangjiang

Derived words

Hongcouver Hongkonger Hong Konger Hongkongese Hongkongness Hong Kong Sign Language Hong Kong Time

Translations

Abkhaz: Ҳонқонг Abkhaz: Ҳонконг Afrikaans: Hongkong Albanian: Hong Kong Amharic: ሆንግ ኮንግ Arabic: هُونْغ كُونْغ Arabic: هُونْج كُونْج Arabic: هُونْق كُونْق Aragonese: Hong Kong Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܘܿܢܓ ܟܘܿܢܓ Armenian: Հոնկոնգ Assamese: হংকং Asturian: Ḥong Kong Azerbaijani: Honq Konq Azerbaijani: Syanqan Bashkir: Гонконг Bashkir: Һоңкоң Basque: Hong Kong Belarusian: Ганко́нг Belarusian: Сянга́н Bengali: হংকং Bengali: হং কং Breton: Hong Kong Bulgarian: Хонко́нг Bulgarian: Сянга́н Bulgarian: Хонг Конг Burmese: ဟောင်ကောင် Catalan: Hong Kong Cebuano: Hong Kong Chinese Cantonese: 香港 Eastern Min Chinese: 香港 Hakka Chinese: 香港 Chinese: 香港 Chinese Mandarin: 香港 Wu Chinese: 香港 Cornish: Hong Kong Czech: Hongkong Danish: Hongkong Dhivehi: ހޮންކޮންގު Dutch: Hongkong Dzongkha: ཧོང་ཀོང Esperanto: Honkongo Estonian: Hongkong Finnish: Hongkong French: Hong Kong French: Hongkong French: Xianggang Georgian: ჰონგკონგი German: Hongkong Greek: Χονγκ Κονγκ Gujarati: હોંગકોંગ
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