Kong Qiu

[ Chinese kawng -chyoo ]

/ Chinese ˈkɔŋ ˈtʃyu /

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noun Pinyin.

personal name of Confucius.

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[koong -chyoo] /ˈkʊŋ ˈtʃyu/ .

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HONG KONG—Last year, I met a Chinese graduate student on a tour of the northeastern United States before his first day at Harvard.
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Memes that ridiculed political leaders and the Hong Kong Police Force shot through fiber optic cables at light speed.
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The past two months have been a war of attrition between the Hong Kong government and pro-democracy protestors.
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What convinced you to make the trip to Hong Kong to first meet Snowden?
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I stayed longer in Hong Kong than Glenn and Ewen, and was hoping to film Snowden one more time where he was hiding out.
Laura Poitras on Snowden's Unrevealed Secrets|Marlow Stern|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The foster-father, who was an American resident in Hong-Kong, found his eyesight gradually failing him.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
In China kong means king, and in modern England king is a slightly decayed form of the Teutonic konig or kinig.
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The most important piece of intelligence from Hong-Kong is the continuation of the fearful mortality among the British troops.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II|Various
A few days were thus pleasantly spent; I then returned to duty at Hong-Kong.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army|Charles Alexander Gordon
And the women with children strapped on their backs while they steer boats and handle passengers and traffic about Hong Kong!
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