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Webster 1913 Edition

Hong

Hong

,
Noun.
[Chinese
hang
, Canton dialect
hong
, a mercantile house, factory.]
A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.
Hong merchant
,
one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.

Hong

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
To hang.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Definition 2024

Hong

Hong

See also: hong, hōng, hóng, hǒng, hòng, and hồng

Luxembourgish

Noun

Hong n ‎(plural Hénger)

  1. chicken, hen

hong

hong

See also: hōng, hóng, hǒng, hòng, hồng, and Hong

English

Noun

hong ‎(plural hongs)

  1. A foreign trading company in China.

See also

Mandarin

Romanization

hong

  1. Nonstandard spelling of hōng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of hóng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of hǒng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of hòng.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Palauan

Etymology

From Japanese 本 ‎(hon).

Noun

hong

  1. book

Etymology

From Old High German huon, from Proto-Germanic *hōną. The expected Luxembourgish singular form is Hunn and hence accidentally the same as the word for “cock, rooster” (< Old High German hano). Hong is the regular dative singular (through velarization in an originally open syllable), which was generalized by analogy with the plural Hénger and the related word Hénkel ‎(“chick”). Cognate with German Huhn, Dutch hoen, Low German Hohn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hoŋ/
  • Rhymes: -oŋ

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