Chek Hom

• Chekhom

From Cantonese 赤坎 (cek3 ham3).

Chek Hom

1. Dated form of Chikan.
   • 1884 April [January 25, 1884], Damon, F. W., “Rambles in China No. 4”, in The Friend‎, volume 33, number 4, Honolulu, ISSN 0016-1268, OCLC 699526372, page 29:

     Our last halting place was for the Sabbath at the town of Chek Hom in the district of Hoi Peng, where there is a small but flourishing, self-supporting church now started under the auspices of the Presbyterian Mission.

   • 1978, Telemaque, Eleanor Wong, It's Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota‎, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, LCCN 78-14054, OCLC 4453454, page 70:

     She tracked down the home village of every woman who came, she remembered every temple, every store, and every road in a place called Chek Hom, where they had brought the pigs to market.

   • 1994, Fong-Torres, Ben, The Rice Room: a Memoir of Growing up Chinese-American‎, Hyperion Books, →ISBN, LCCN 93-28111, OCLC 1037366276, page 246:

     As we entered Chek Hom—my mother's village—the portraits my parents had drawn vanished into the dusty air, replaced by actual people, deeply lined and tanned, going about their business in town.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chek Hom.