港 (gong2 | gang3 hong1) : seaport; harbour

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港

gong2

gang3 hong1

[1] [n] seaport; harbour [2] [n] bay; gulf [3] short for Hongkong

Stroke count: 12

Level: 2

Radical: 水 (#85)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

港

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th May 2010 04:33

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香港人 hoeng1 gong2 jan4 xiang1 gang3 ren2 = Hong Kong person/people

香港 hoeng1 gong2 xiang1 gang3 = Hong Kong

港人 gong2 jan4 gang3 ren2 = Hong Kong person / people

深港 sam1 gong2 shen1 gang3 = Shenzhen and Hong Kong

中港臺 zung1 gong2 toi4 zhong1 gang3 tai2 = China - Hong Kong - Taiwan 國

中港台 zung1 gong2 toi4 zhong1 gang3 tai2 = China - Hong Kong - Taiwan 國

港姐 gong2 ze2 gang3 jie3 = Miss Hong Kong

香港特區 hoeng1 gong2 dak6 keoi1 xiang1 gang3 te4 qu1 = Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

香港地 hoeng1 gong2 dei6*2 = here in Hong Kong 粵

香港腳 hoeng1 gong2 goek3 xiang1 gang3 jiao3 = athlete's foot, tinea pedis 粵
See all 244 compounds (CantoDict reports 249 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 10 of 14 examples containing 港

我下個星期就返香港啦。粵
I'm going back to Hong Kong next week.

當你睇到呢封信嘅時候﹐我已經離開咗香港。粵
By the time you read this letter, I will have already left Hong Kong.
[This line of dialogue is often heard in TV soap operas! :-)]

「全民皆股」係香港嘅特色。粵
Everyone buying stocks is a characteristic of Hong Kong

我冇去香港粵
I didn't go to Hong Kong.

我冇去過香港粵
I have never been to Hong Kong.

香港先進過台灣粵
Hong Kong is more advanced than Taiwan.
[Lit. Hong Kong advanced surpass Taiwan]

香港先進過中國好多粵
Hong Kong is much more advanced than China.
[Lit. Hong Kong advance surpass China a lot (n.b. this is only intended to illustrate Cantonese comparatives and is not necessarily accurate!)]

你覺得英國同香港有啲乜嘢分別粵
What differences do you perceive between England and Hong Kong?
[Lit. you feel England with Hong Kong have [plural counter] what differences?]

喺香港,我最怕嘅就係畀蚊咬粵
In Hong Kong, I'm most scared of being bitten.
[Lit. Hong Kong, I most scared [possessive particle] exactly is by mosquitoes bite. This sentence is topicalised: the topic (Hong Kong) is introduced at the start. Also, note the phrase 最怕嘅; the 嘅 turns it into a noun phrase.]

香港同新加坡人都見慣高樓大厦粵
People of Hong Kong and Singapore are used to seeing high rise buildings.

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Decimal representation of this word: 港
Unicode code for this character: U+6e2f (off-site link)

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