香港
Chinese
fragrant good-smelling incense | harbour | ||
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trad. (香港) | 香 | 港 | |
simp. #(香港) | 香 | 港 |
Etymology
The name 香港 first appeared on a map in 粵大記 [1595] as a label for an island that seems to be Ap Lei Chau. In the two Gazetteer of Xin'an County (新安縣志) published in 1688 and 1819, 香港 was the name of a village (as 香港村). The village was likely located in Wong Chuk Hang in the south of Hong Kong Island as indicated by 19th-century maps.
18th-century western maps appear to render the name of Hong Kong Island as Fan Chin Chow (or its variants), which appears to be a Hakka romanization of 飯甑洲 (Kwok and Cheung, 2007). In the Treaty of Nanking signed in 1842, the name 香港 referred to the entire Hong Kong Island.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
香港
- (~特別行政區) Hong Kong (a city and special administrative region of China)
- Short for 香港島/香港岛 (Xiānggǎngdǎo, “Hong Kong Island”).
- 我的胞兄香港在訴他的苦痛,
- From: 1925, Wen Yiduo, 七子之歌
- Wǒ de bāoxiōng Xiānggǎng zài sù tā de kǔtòng,
mǔqīn ya, kě jìdé nǐ de yòunǚ Jiǔlóng? [Pinyin] - My brother Hong Kong (Island) is expressing his pain,
oh mother, do you remember your daughter Kowloon?
母親呀,可記得你的幼女九龍? [MSC, trad.]
我的胞兄香港在诉他的苦痛,
母亲呀,可记得你的幼女九龙? [MSC, simp.]
- (~村) (historical) Hong Kong (a former village in the south of Hong Kong Island)
Synonyms
- (city): 香江 (Xiāngjiāng), 香港地, 東方之珠/东方之珠
Derived terms
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Descendants
- → Korean: 향항(香港) (Hyanghang)
- → Vietnamese: Hương Cảng (香港)
Others:
- → English: Hong Kong, Xianggang
- → Japanese: 香港 (Honkon)
- → Korean: 홍콩 (Hongkong)
- → Russian: Гонко́нг (Gonkóng)
- → French: Hong Kong, Hongkong
- → Japanese: シャンガン (Shangan)
- → Mongolian: Хонконг (Xonkong) (Mongolia)
- → Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠩᠭᠠᠩ (siyaŋɣaŋ) (China)
- → Russian: Сянга́н (Sjangán)
- → Tibetan: ཞང་ཀང (zhang kang)
- → Uyghur: شياڭگاڭ (shyanggang)
- → Vietnamese: Hồng Công, Hồng Kông
- → Zhuang: Yanghgangj
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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香 | 港 |
ほん Grade: 4 | こん Grade: 3 |
irregular |
Etymology
From English Hong Kong, from Cantonese 香港 (hoeng1 gong2).
Pronunciation
- (Tokyo) ホンコン [hóꜜǹkòǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
- IPA(key): [hõ̞ŋkõ̞ɴ]
Proper noun
香港 • (Hon Kon)
- Hong Kong
- 中華人民共和国香港特別行政区
- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku Hon Kon Tokubetsu Gyōseiku
- the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
- 中華人民共和国香港特別行政区
References
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
Korean
Hanja in this term | |
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香 | 港 |
Proper noun
香港 • (Hyanghang) (hangeul 향항)
- Hanja form? of 향항 (“Hong Kong”).
Vietnamese
Hán tự in this term | |
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香 | 港 |
Proper noun
香港
- chữ Hán form of Hương Cảng (“Hong Kong”).