"Chek Hom" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1884 April [1884 January 25], F. W. Damon, “Rambles in China No. 4”, in The Friend, volume 33, number 4, Honolulu, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29",
          "text": "Our last halting place was for the Sabbath at the town of Chek Hom in the district of Hoi Peng, where there is a small but flourishing, self-supporting church now started under the auspices of the Presbyterian Mission.",
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          "ref": "1978, Eleanor Wong Telemaque, It's Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota, Thomas Nelson, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70",
          "text": "She tracked down the home village of every woman who came, she remembered every temple, every store, and every road in a place called Chek Hom, where they had brought the pigs to market.",
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          "ref": "1994, Ben Fong-Torres, The Rice Room: a Memoir of Growing up Chinese-American, Hyperion Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 246",
          "text": "As we entered Chek Hom—my mother's village—the portraits my parents had drawn vanished into the dusty air, replaced by actual people, deeply lined and tanned, going about their business in town.",
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