hong

• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

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hong

1. (obsolete) past tense of hang
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,
     From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong

From Cantonese 行 (hong4, “trade, business”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Could someone with knowledge of Cantonese verify this etymology? Is it a shortening of 洋行”)

hong (plural hongs)

1. A foreign trading company in China.
   • 1935, William Ukers, All About Tea

     In this partly manufactured state they are sold to collectors, who re-sell them to tea hongs, or factories, and these hongs in turn resell to middlemen, who supply the foreign exporter.

• Gohn

hong m

1. h-prothesized form of ong

hong

1. h-prothesized form of ong

From Proto-Finnic *honka. Cognates include Finnish honka.

hong

1. forest pine

hong

1. Nonstandard spelling of hōng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hóng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of hǒng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hòng.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Japanese 本 (hon).

hong

1. book

From Proto-Finnic *honka.

hong

1. forest pine

Compare Chinese 烘, Thai แห้ง (hɛ̂ɛng).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hawŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hawŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [hawŋ͡m˧˧]

hong • (𣈞, 𤈤)

1. to dry (in the wind, sun, or near the fire)

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /hoːŋ˨˦/
• Tone numbers: hong¹
• Hyphenation: hong

From Chinese 工 (OC *koːŋ).

hong (Sawndip forms 𰏊 or ⿱功大 or 慌 or ⿰工空 or ⿱红工 or 啌 or 空 or 康 or 𭘎 or ⿱䒑巷 or 控, 1957–1982 spelling hoŋ)

1. work; labor

   Synonym: goeng

From Proto-Tai *χɔːŋᴬ (“thing”). Cognate with Thai ของ (kɔ̌ɔng), Northern Thai ᨡᩬᨦ, Lao ຂອງ (khǭng), Lü ᦃᦸᧂ (ẋoang), Tai Dam ꪄꪮꪉ, Shan ၶွင် (khǎung), Zuojiang Zhuang kong.

hong (1957–1982 spelling hoŋ)

1. (dialectal) thing; object

   Synonyms: doenghyiengh, doxgaiq, (dialectal) swhyiengh

hong

1. open

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf