香港
Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC (short name 港[Gǎng])
CC-CEDICT · CC BY-SA
Wiktionary
- 1.Hong Kong (a city and special administrative region in southeastern China)
- 2.Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island (an island of Hong Kong, China)
- 3.(historical) Hong Kong (a former village on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China)
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
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.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Characters
Example sentences
她在香港有很多朋友。
She has many friends in Hong Kong.
他们就快从香港抵达了。
They are arriving here soon from Hong Kong.
Sentences from Tatoeba · CC-BY 2.0 FR
More examples & usage (AI)
Synonyms
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Derived terms
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA