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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Hong Kong + foot (unit of length).
Noun
Hong Kong foot (plural Hong Kong feet)
- A chek, the Hong Kong variant of the Chinese foot now standardized as 0.371475 meters.
See also
Etymology 2
Calque from Chinese 香港腳／香港脚 (xiānggǎngjiǎo).[1]
Noun
Hong Kong foot (uncountable)
- (slang, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, pathology) Athlete's foot.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- ^ 香港醫院藥劑師學會 (2017 July 30 (last accessed)) “香港腳的處理及預防”, in 《醫·藥·人》第52期