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hong
(hong),USA pronunciation n.
- Foreign Terms(in China) a group of rooms or buildings forming a warehouse, factory, etc.
- Foreign Termsone of the factories under foreign ownership formerly maintained at Canton.
- dialect, dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) hòhng, equivalent. to Chinese háng row of shops
- 1720–30
'hong' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
British dollar
- Cantonese
- Disneyland
- Dream of the Red Chamber, The
- East Asia
- Foster
- Guangdong
- HK
- Hakka
- Hang Seng Index
- Hong Kong
- Hong Xiu Quan
- Hong-wu
- Hung Hsiu-ch'uan
- Hung-wu
- Kingston
- Kowloon
- Leach
- Macao
- New Territories
- Opium War
- Qian Long
- Red Guard
- Red River
- Taiping
- Victoria
- Xianggang
- Zhu Jiang
- agent
- air passage
- cent
- dollar
- flu
- grindhouse
- put
- rub down
- source