Hong Kong

[hɔŋ˥ kʰɔŋ˥]

Columbia University Press
Hong Kong
Saul B. Cohen

Etymology tree
Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong²)bor.
English Hong Kong
From Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong², “fragrant harbor”), the former name of a settlement in what is now Aberdeen on the southwest side of Hong Kong Island, where incense was stored for export.

bor

A special administrative region of China, which includes the city and island of the same name as well as nearby islands and the Kowloon Peninsula.

Ҳонқонг

coastal administrative region in south-east China


Established in the United Kingdom as the first emergency service number in the world, initially chosen because of its suitability at a time of rotary-dial telephones.

I don't know why they couldn't just keep it as it was! How hard is it to remember 911?
You mean 999...
I mean 999!
That's the American one!
Yeah!

2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 2

When you call 999 in the UK, the operator usually answers the phone with "Emergency. Which service?"

The telephone number for emergency services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Burma, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, and the Seychelles.

三条九 (saam¹ tiu⁴ gau², literally “triple nine”)


Cantopop

Earlier, a venerable British guitarist in wonderful tweeds had opined as how they hadn't really expected the next Hendrix to emerge from Taiwanese Canto-pop, but then again they hadn't actually been expecting the first one, had they?

1996, William Gibson, Idoru (Bridge trilogy; book 2), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 131:

Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years.

2024 January 20, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “An Asian megastar who fills arenas in Europe–so who is he?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 14:

(music) Cantonese pop music, originating from Guangdong and Hong Kong.


Disneyland

The archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California. Other Disneyland theme parks exist in other cities such as Chessy (Seine-et-Marne, France), Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.


SoHo

en:SoHo (disambiguation)
en:SoHo, Hong Kong

Blend of south + Hollywood.
Acronym of south of Hollywood Road..

When he heard about Omnipork at the Food’s Future Summit in Hong Kong last year, he contacted Right Treat to give it a try, and eventually added it to the vegetarian mapo tofu at his restaurant in the city’s SoHo district.

2019 March 18, Andrew Genung, “It’s the Year of the Pig. Is it also the year fake pork takes off in China?”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-03-19, Food:

At No. 3 Staunton Street in the city’s SoHo district, the roughly 1,300 square-foot ground floor was once used as a parking space for a Ferrari.

2023 March 22, Christy Choi, “Hong Kong’s New Kids on the Block”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22, Art & Design:

The fire started in a flat at No 9 on Gough Street at Shun King Building in the SoHo area of Sheung Wan at about 10.20pm.

2024 September 10, Danny Mok, “Woman dies, 3 others injured in fire that broke out in Hong Kong’s SoHo”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-09-10, Hong Kong/Society:

Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island#English

A neighbourhood of Central district, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.


Kowloon

From Cantonese 九龍／九龙 (gau² lung⁴, literally “nine dragons”), named after its eight mountains and the Chinese emperor Zhao Bing (1272–1279).

By the late 1930's some modern factories, built by outside interests and producing such goods as bricks, beer, and chinaware for export abroad, had already appeared in Tsuen Wan, a market town near Kowloon.

1968, Jack M. Potter, Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village, University of California Press, page 36:

Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the gate. Two cars suspected of being those used in the attacks were later found burning in nearby areas of Kowloon.

2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-15, Sinosphere:

Several protesters took up positions on the rooftops of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, armed with bows and arrows, as unrest spread across the territory's central Kowloon district.

2019 November 17, “Hong Kong protesters fend off police with arrows, petrol bombs as unrest spreads”, in France 24, sourced from Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-11-17, Asia / Pacific:

Hong Kong authorities evacuated at least 3,400 people from buildings after a fire broke out in a warehouse in the city's Kowloon district on Friday.

2023 March 24, “Hong Kong warehouse fire forces thousands to evacuate”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2023-03-24, Society:


NoHo

Blend of north + Hollywood
* (Los Angeles): Acronym of North Hollywood.
* (Hong Kong): Acronym of north of Hollywood Road.

Gough Street, in newly trendy NoHo, is now home to Ralph Lauren and other top brands.[…]
As part of the larger "NoHo" area, Gough Street has attracted tenants priced out of its larger neighbour SoHo. Once home to family-run stores and printers and now known locally for its casual Cantonese restaurants and art galleries, the Gough Street area's tenant mix was "internationalised" one or two years ago.

2014 September 30, Nick Bradstreet, “New retail districts a welcome trend but challenges remain”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-12-10, Property:

A neighbourhood of Central district, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong; along Gough Street.


Beacon Hill

A neighbourhood of Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City district, Hong Kong


New Territories

One of the three main regions of Hong Kong.


King's Park

Aug. 19 is the Festival of Hungry Ghosts. In addition to people burning paper offerings on most street corners, there will be Chinese opera and the burning of large paper effigies on Moreton Terrace in Causeway Bay and King's Park in Kowloon (Mass Transit Railway to Jordan Road).

1986 July 27, William Schwalbe, “WHAT'S DOING IN; HONG KONG”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, Travel, page 10:

On a drizzly afternoon, Tobias Zuser met Andrew Barisić after his training session at King’s Park, right in the heart of Kowloon, to talk about his first trophy, the disputed pitch at Hong Kong Stadium, the quality of local football, the potential of the Premier League, as well as his club’s ambitious plans in the coming years.

2016 February 25, “‘We deserve to win the title’: Interview with Eastern striker Andrew Barisić”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-04-07, Hong Kong:

A neighbourhood of Yau Ma Tei, Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Discovery Bay

Matthew Poole, a pilot with Cathay Pacific Airways, lived in a high-rise apartment in Discovery Bay when he first moved to Hong Kong.

2006 September 29, Alex Frew McMillan, “Hong Kong: Beating towering buildings - Properties - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-11:

Students from a school in Discovery Bay were among protesters to descend on Hong Kong Disneyland on Sunday to demand outstanding severance and social security pay for workers at a Guangdong factory that manufactured Disney Japan toys.

2015 September 14, Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, “Discovery Bay students join mainland factory workers in Disneyland protest”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2016-04-07:

A neighborhood of Islands district, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.


BNO

Hong Kongers are invited to apply for a new British National Overseas (BNO) visa that leads to citizenship.

2021 January 30, “Hong Kongers eye British citizenship but fear retaliation from China”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

British National (Overseas)
w:British National (Overseas)

Initialism of British National (Overseas), a legal status granted by the British government to certain residents of Hong Kong.


Milk Tea Alliance

The choice of the “milk tea” name is to highlight their shared animosity towards China, due to the fact that Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Myanmar all have their own local styles of milk tea, while traditional Chinese tea is drunk neat without milk and sugar.

An alliance between between democratic, pro-Western, anti-Chinese movements in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Myanmar.


mainlandization

(politics) The assimilation or incorporation of Hong Kong into mainland China.


special administrative region

en-noun

special administrative region (plural special administrative regions)

Designation for types of administrative division in China, East Timor, and North Korea.

In China, an administrative division and a type of dependent territory that is granted de jure autonomy (apart from applicable national laws) except for issues relating to foreign relations and defence.


Aldrich Bay

In Aldrich Street’s translation story, English and Cantonese are creatively intertwined. Situated in Aldrich Bay, the area is named after Colonel Edward Aldrich, who was responsible for formulating the British defence plan and was known for his remarkable effectiveness in rectifying military discipline. When the bay was named after him in 1845, “Aldrich” was converted to 「愛秩序」(ngoi3 dit6 zeoi6) in Chinese, which means “loving discipline” and its Cantonese transliteration.

2022 December 25, Diana Pang, “Foreign influence Part 1: Lost in translation, Hong Kong’s weird and wonderful street names”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-08-27, Hong Kong:

A neighbourhood of Shau Kei Wan, Eastern district, Hong Kong.


DDJ

deputy district judge
deputy district judge#English

(law, Hong Kong, England, Wales) Abbreviation of deputy district judge.


Hang Hau

“It’s very touching,” said Alice Lo, a 24-year-old web designer who lives with her mother in the Hang Hau neighborhood.

2019 September 2, Felix Tam, Marius Zaharia, Donny Kwok, Tom Westbrook, Thomas Peter, “Hong Kong neighborhoods echo with late night cries for freedom”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-09-02:

The Transport Department said at 1.08am that it had ended the temporary one-lane-two-way traffic arrangement on Clear Water Bay Road near Wing Lung Road in Hang Hau, where a slope about 30 metres long (98 feet) and 40 metres deep had collapsed.

2024 May 6, Jeffie Lam, “Hong Kong’s Clear Water Bay Road fully reopens after landslide forced lane closure amid weekend downpour”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-06, Transport:

An area in Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


HK-pop

From HK (“Hong Kong”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.