Hong
Hong , noun
[Chinese hang, Canton dialect hong, a mercantile house, factory.]
A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.
Collocations (1)
Hong merchant , one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.
Hong , verb, transitive and intransitive
To hang. [Obsolete] — Chaucer