"hong" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /hɒŋ/ [UK], /hɔŋ/ [General-American], /hɑŋ/ [cot-caught-merger] Forms: hongs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒŋ Etymology: From Cantonese 行 (hong4, “trade, business”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|yue|行|t=trade, business|tr=hong4}} Cantonese 行 (hong4, “trade, business”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} hong (plural hongs)
  1. A foreign trading company in China. Related terms: hongbao, hong boat
    Sense id: en-hong-en-noun-NQBmWmWo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 98 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} hong
  1. (obsolete) past of hang Tags: form-of, obsolete, past Form of: hang
    Sense id: en-hong-en-verb--bwU-Trw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hong meaning in English (2.7kB)

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          "ref": "1901, Hezekiah Butterworth, “1.Strange Things to Be Seen in China – Jataka Tales – the Boxers – American Tea-farms”, in Traveller Tales of China or the Story-Telling Hongs, Boston: Dana Estes & Company, page 11",
          "text": "\"You and your son are about to visit China,\" said a Chinese agent of an old and established hong in Canton. […] The speaker was Ah Hue, or Ah Hue-Ling. He had made a reputation for honorable dealing as an agent of the tea trade.",
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          "ref": "1935, William Ukers, All About Tea",
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          "ref": "1997 August 7, “Superman versus the hong”, in The Economist, →ISSN",
          "text": "Even though China's red flag now flutters above them, some 40% of the offices are still owned by Hongkong Land, an immensely wealthy company that is part of the Jardine Matheson group, the biggest of the British-owned “hongs” and the one that did most to establish the British territory.",
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          "ref": "1935, William Ukers, All About Tea",
          "text": "In this partly manufactured state they are sold to collectors, who re-sell them to tea hongs, or factories, and these hongs in turn resell to middlemen, who supply the foreign exporter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 August 7, “Superman versus the hong”, in The Economist, →ISSN",
          "text": "Even though China's red flag now flutters above them, some 40% of the offices are still owned by Hongkong Land, an immensely wealthy company that is part of the Jardine Matheson group, the biggest of the British-owned “hongs” and the one that did most to establish the British territory.",
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