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gonghang

gonghang is the alternative form of cohong.

Meaning of cohong

Noun

cohong (plural cohongs)

  1. (historical) A guild of Chinese merchants or hongs who operated the import-export monopoly in Canton (present-day Guangzhou) during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).

Forms of gonghang

pluralgonghangs

Questions about gonghang

What is gonghang the alternative form of?
Gonghang is the alternative form of cohong.

Words near gonghang in the dictionary

  1. gongfermours
  2. gongfu
  3. Gongga
  4. gonggi
  5. Gonggong
  6. gonghang
  7. gonghangs
  8. Gonghe
  9. gonghouse
  10. gonghouses
  11. gonging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gonghang (page history and authors); cohong (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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