Hong Kongとは

意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (region in China):
  • HK
  • Hong-Kong, Hong-kong, Honkong (廃れた用法)
  • Hongkong (dated)
  • Hsiang Kang, Xianggang (まれに)

語源

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.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/
• 韻: -ɒŋ

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^[1], 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.

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.

派生語

• Hongkonger, Hong Konger
• Hongkongese
• Hongcouver

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/
• 韻: -ɒŋ

固有名詞

Hongkong

1. Dated form of Hong Kong.
   • 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882‎^[1], 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] the south-eastern extremities, whilst Hongkong is separated from Kowloon Peninsula by a channel of one nautical mile in width.

   • 1940, Irving S. Friedman, British Relations With China: 1931-1939‎^[2], Institute of Pacific Relations, 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^[3], volume XX, number 16, Taipei, page 3:

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