Hongkong

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English

Proper noun

Hongkong

  1. Dated spelling of Hong Kong.
    • 1879 [1877 February 26], Anna Brassey, “The Inland Sea”, in A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months, 6th edition, Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing, →OCLC, page 370:
      At 4 a.m. we found ourselves close under the light on the eastern end of the island of Hongkong. We were surrounded by islands, and the morning was dark and thick; so we waited till 5.30, and then steamed on through the Kowloon passage up to the city of Victoria, as it is really named, though it is generally called Hongkong.
    • 1890 February 28, W. S. Wetmore, “RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN CHINA IN THE FIFTIES.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XLIV, number 1178, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 256, column 1; republished as Recollections of Life in the Far East, 1894, →OCLC, page 32:
      In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope.
    • 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882, London: Luzac & Company, pages 127–128:
      Hongkong, and the opposite portion of the mainland of China, known as the Peninsula of Kowloon, together with the few tiny islets situated close inshore (Kellett Island, Stonecutter's Island, Green Island, Tree Island, Aberdeen Middle Island, and Round Island), all of which are at the present day comprised, within the boundaries of the Colony, formed, since time immemorial, a portion of the Kwangtung (Canton) Province. The Island of Hongkong (covering an area of about 29 square miles) is situated, 76 miles of Canton, near the mouth of the Pearl River, the eastern banks of which are lined by the Tungkoon District (24 miles S.E. of Canton city) and the Sanon District (52 miles S.E. of Canton city), of which the Kowloon Peninsula and Kowloon City Promontory from the south-eastern extremities, whilst Hongkong is separated from Kowloon Peninsula by a channel of one nautical mile in width.
    • 1909 August 21, “THE TRUTH ABOUT PRATAS ISLAND”, in The Japan Weekly Mail, volume LII, number 8, Yokohama, page 241:
      Thus they went further afield in their depredations, and only last Summer, it will be remembered, a party of Japanese bird-hunters was rescued by a Brazilian training-ship as far south as Wake’s Island, just as their provisions and water had petered out, and were brought on to Hongkong.
    • 1940, Irving S. Friedman, British Relations With China: 1931-1939, Institute of Pacific Relations, →OCLC, page 81:
      Reports were common of a Sino-British agreement for British co-operation in the economic development of South China, including British financing of a railway in Hainan, the establishment of an airdrome on Tungsha Island southeast of Hongkong, an oil depot in the Sesha Islands southwest of Hainan, and the development of mines in South China.
    • 1979 April 29, “'Fifth modernization'”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
      Human rights advocate Wei Ching-sheng was arrested in Peiping's recent crackdown on dissidents according to a report from Hongkong.
    • 1993 [1992 October 1], Pei-tsun Hau, “Stability, Democracy, the Rule of Law, Development, and Reunification”, in Straight Talk, Taipei: Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:
      The ROCs set policy stipulates that ROC agencies will not be withdrawn from Hong Kong after 1997 and will continue helping our compatriots in Hongkong to maintain a free and democratic lifestyle.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hongkong.

Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hongkong m inan (related adjective hongkongský)

  1. Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • Hongkong”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • Hongkong”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

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Wikipedia da

Proper noun

Hongkong

  1. Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fi

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Cantonese 香港 (hoeng1 gong2).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hongkong

  1. Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)

Declension

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.

Inflection of Hongkong (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative Hongkong
genitive Hongkongin
partitive Hongkongia
illative Hongkongiin
singular plural
nominative Hongkong
accusative nom. Hongkong
gen. Hongkongin
genitive Hongkongin
partitive Hongkongia
inessive Hongkongissa
elative Hongkongista
illative Hongkongiin
adessive Hongkongilla
ablative Hongkongilta
allative Hongkongille
essive Hongkongina
translative Hongkongiksi
abessive Hongkongitta
instructive
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of Hongkong (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative Hongkongini
accusative nom. Hongkongini
gen. Hongkongini
genitive Hongkongini
partitive Hongkongiani
inessive Hongkongissani
elative Hongkongistani
illative Hongkongiini
adessive Hongkongillani
ablative Hongkongiltani
allative Hongkongilleni
essive Hongkonginani
translative Hongkongikseni
abessive Hongkongittani
instructive
comitative
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative Hongkongisi
accusative nom. Hongkongisi
gen. Hongkongisi
genitive Hongkongisi
partitive Hongkongiasi
inessive Hongkongissasi
elative Hongkongistasi
illative Hongkongiisi
adessive Hongkongillasi
ablative Hongkongiltasi
allative Hongkongillesi
essive Hongkonginasi
translative Hongkongiksesi
abessive Hongkongittasi
instructive
comitative
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative Hongkongimme
accusative nom. Hongkongimme
gen. Hongkongimme
genitive Hongkongimme
partitive Hongkongiamme
inessive Hongkongissamme
elative Hongkongistamme
illative Hongkongiimme
adessive Hongkongillamme
ablative Hongkongiltamme
allative Hongkongillemme
essive Hongkonginamme
translative Hongkongiksemme
abessive Hongkongittamme
instructive
comitative
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative Hongkonginne
accusative nom. Hongkonginne
gen. Hongkonginne
genitive Hongkonginne
partitive Hongkongianne
inessive Hongkongissanne
elative Hongkongistanne
illative Hongkongiinne
adessive Hongkongillanne
ablative Hongkongiltanne
allative Hongkongillenne
essive Hongkonginanne
translative Hongkongiksenne
abessive Hongkongittanne
instructive
comitative
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative Hongkonginsa
accusative nom. Hongkonginsa
gen. Hongkonginsa
genitive Hongkonginsa
partitive Hongkongiaan
Hongkongiansa
inessive Hongkongissaan
Hongkongissansa
elative Hongkongistaan
Hongkongistansa
illative Hongkongiinsa
adessive Hongkongillaan
Hongkongillansa
ablative Hongkongiltaan
Hongkongiltansa
allative Hongkongilleen
Hongkongillensa
essive Hongkonginaan
Hongkonginansa
translative Hongkongikseen
Hongkongiksensa
abessive Hongkongittaan
Hongkongittansa
instructive
comitative

Synonyms

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hongkong ?

  1. Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)

German

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Hongkong n (proper noun, genitive Hongkongs or (optionally with an article) Hongkong)

  1. Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)

Hungarian

 Hongkong on Hungarian Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hongkong

  1. Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Hongkong
accusative Hongkongot
dative Hongkongnak
instrumental Hongkonggal
causal-final Hongkongért
translative Hongkonggá
terminative Hongkongig
essive-formal Hongkongként
essive-modal
inessive Hongkongban
superessive Hongkongon
adessive Hongkongnál
illative Hongkongba
sublative Hongkongra
allative Hongkonghoz
elative Hongkongból
delative Hongkongról
ablative Hongkongtól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Hongkongé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Hongkongéi
Possessive forms of Hongkong
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Hongkongom
2nd person sing. Hongkongod
3rd person sing. Hongkongja
1st person plural Hongkongunk
2nd person plural Hongkongotok
3rd person plural Hongkongjuk

Derived terms

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from English Hong Kong, from Cantonese 香港 (hoeng1 gong2).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hongkong m inan

  1. Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
nouns

Further reading

  • Hongkong in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Hongkong in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Hongkong f

  1. Dated spelling of Hong Kong., a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sh

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Hongkong m (Cyrillic spelling Хонгконг)

  1. Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)

Swedish

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Proper noun

Hongkong n (genitive Hongkongs)

  1. Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)

Tagalog

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hongkóng (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜅ᜔ᜃᜓᜅ᜔)

  1. Alternative spelling of Hong Kong