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Chek Hom

Chek Hom is the dated form of Chikan.

Meaning of Chikan

Proper noun

Chikan

  1. A town in Kaiping, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
    • Close to 4,000 households are being forced out of a centuries-old town on the western edge of the Pearl River Delta by their local government, which has teamed up with an investment firm to turn it into a tourist attraction.
      It’s not what the residents of Chikan’s old town expected when the nearby...2017 August 28, He Huifeng, “Families who’ve lived in old Chinese town for generations being kicked out to make way for tourists”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
    Synonyms:
    Chek Hom, Chekhom, Chik Hom, Chikhom

See all 5 meanings of chikan

Forms of Chek Hom

alternative formChekhom

Origin of Chek Hom

From Cantonese 赤坎 (cek3 ham3).

Questions about Chek Hom

What is Chek Hom the dated form of?
Chek Hom is the dated form of Chikan.

Words near Chek Hom in the dictionary

  1. cheirurids
  2. Cheju
  3. chek
  4. Chek Chu
  5. Chek Chue
  6. Chek Hom
  7. Cheka
  8. chekan
  9. chekans
  10. Chekas
  11. Chekenian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chek Hom (page history and authors); Chikan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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