hong
UK /hɒŋ/ US /hɔŋ/
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A foreign trading company in China.
"You and your son are about to visit China," said a Chinese agent of an old and established hong in Canton. […] The speaker was Ah Hue, or Ah Hue-Ling. He had made a reputation for honorable dealing as an agent of the tea trade.
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.
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A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
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A surname from Mandarin or Taishanese.
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