Hong Kongとは意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• HK
• Hong-Kong, Hong-kong, Honkong (廃れた用法)
• Hongkong (dated)

語源

Corruption of Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong², “Fragrant Harbor^[1]”), the former name of a settlement in what is now Aberdeen on the southwest side of Hong Kong Island.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): [hɔŋ˥ kʰɔŋ˥]
• 韻: -ɒŋ
• enPR: hǒngʹ kǒngʹ

固有名詞

Hong Kong

1. A city in southeastern China, located on an island east of the Pearl River delta in the South China Sea; formerly owned by the United Kingdom.
   • 1850 December, “Foreign News”, in The Gentleman's Magazine‎^[2], volume XXXIV, London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, page 645:

     CHINA.
     A rebellion of more than ordinary importance is in progress in this country. At the departure of the last mail from Hong Kong numerous bands of robbers were plundering and burning throughout the provinces of Kangsi and Canton, and, having captured the city of Kintschan, had advanced to within 120 English miles of Canton.

   • 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎^[3], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, LCCN 64-7830, OCLC 899031989, pages 78-79:

     In 1962 a special law had to be passed to permit the immigration of several thousand Chinese refugees who had escaped from Communist China to Hong Kong.

   • 2005, Clinton, Bill, My Life‎^[4], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, OCLC 60594427, page 437:

     The Chinese had promised to let Hong Kong keep its much more democratic political system, but I had the clear impression that the details of their reunion were still being worked out, and that neither side was fully satisfied with the present state of affairs.

   • 2022 May 11, “Reports: Hong Kong arrests Roman Catholic cardinal, 3 others”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 12 May 2022:

     A 90-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal, a singer and at least two others have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger China’s national security, in an action widely condemned as a further sign of Beijing’s erosion of rights in the city.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hong Kong.
2. An island in southeastern China, Hong Kong Island, the site of the city of the same name, lying off Guangdong province.
3. 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.
4. (historical) A colony of the United Kingdom, which previously administered the area of the present-day Chinese special administrative region.

同意語

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Hsiang Kang, Xianggang (まれに)

派生語

• Hongkonger, Hong Konger
• Hongkongese
• Hongcouver

参照

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/
• 韻: -ɒŋ

固有名詞

Hongkong

1. Dated form of Hong Kong.
   • 1879 [February 26, 1877], Brassey, Anna, “The Inland Sea”, in A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months‎^[1], Sixth edition, Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing, OCLC 70454630, 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, Wetmore, W. S., “RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN CHINA IN THE FIFTIES.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[2], volume XLIV, number 1178, Shanghai, OCLC 311405954, page 256, column 1; republished as Recollections of Life in the Far East‎^[3], 1894, OCLC 27962631, 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^[4], London: Luzac & Company, page 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, かつ 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^{[sic – meaning form]} 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^[5], 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^[6], Institute of Pacific Relations, OCLC 906182871, 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^[7], volume XX, number 16, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 3:

     Human rights advocate Wei Ching-sheng was arrested in Peiping's recent crackdown on dissidents according to a report from Hongkong.

   • 1993 [October 1, 1992], Hau, Pei-tsun, “Stability, Democracy, the Rule of Law, Development, and Reunification”, in Straight Talk‎^[8], Taipei: Government Information Office, →ISBN, OCLC 1089286362, 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

• Hongkong at OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Hongkong” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2022.