The generic forms of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 place names are mainly Cantonese, Hakka and British English

British English

British English, or English , is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere...

, although other languages also contribute to Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 place names.

Majority of generic forms are suffix such as Chung in Kwai Chung. Some indicators of ordering and direction could be as prefix, like Tai Pai (大白, lit. first white), Yi Pai (二白, second white). Some more ancient name from Yuet peoples might be of prefix.

Change in name

It is common that Cantonese place names change Chinese character

Chinese character

Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...

s of similar pronunciation because of misinterpretation by mandarin

Mandarin (bureaucrat)

A mandarin was a bureaucrat in imperial China, and also in the monarchist days of Vietnam where the system of Imperial examinations and scholar-bureaucrats was adopted under Chinese influence.-History and use of the term:...

s or visitors from foreign villages and cities, illiteracy of local villages, seeking of good fortune and replace of
disgusting meanings.

Indigenous

• Am,Ngam (岩) - rock, rock face, crag
• Au (坳 or 凹) - mountain pass
• Chai/Tsai (仔) - small/minor, word suffix indicating a diminutive.
• Chai (寨) - defensed village
• Chau (洲) - islet, island
• Che (輋)
• Chung (涌) - estuarial lagoon at mouth or confluence of stream, stream
• Ha (下) - lower
• Hau (口) - opening
• Heung (鄉) - village, rural area
• Ho (河) - river
• Hoi (海) - sea
• Hui (墟) - market, locality within a town
• Hom (磡) - pillar, mill-stone
• Kai (街) - street
• Kan (澗) - stream
• Kap (甲) - something that sticks out, bulge, appendage.
• Kau (滘) - basin
• Kiu (橋) - bridge
• Ko Tan (高灘) - elevated plain
• Kok (角) - point (of land), horn, angle
• Kuk (谷) - valley
• Lam (林) - wood or forest
• Leng/Ling (嶺) - hill-top, ridge
• Long - narrow elongated valley between hills
• Lo Wai (老圍) - old walled village
• Mei (尾) - tail (of a place)
• Mun (門) - door/gate, opening, channel
• O (澳) - cove, small bay or harbour
• Pai (排) - slab (of rock), (rocky) reef.
• Pik (壁) - cliff
• Ping (坪) - plain
• Po (埗) - pier
• Po (埔) - plain (?)
• Pun (盤) - basin
• San Tsuen (新村) - new village
• Sha (沙) - sand, sandy beach, sandy cay or shoal
• Shan (山) - hill, mountain, mountainous island/islet
• Shek (石) - rock
• Sheung (上) - upper
• Shing (城) - walled city
• Shui (水) - water, stream
• Tam (潭) - pool
• Tan (灘) - beach or shallow band
• Tau (頭) - head (of a place)
• Tei (地) - land, place
• Tin (田) - field (flooded or dry)
• To (島) - island
• To (肚) - valley
• Tong (塘) - pond, plain
• Tong (堂) - hall
• Tun (墩) - small (usually rounded) hill
• Tung (洞) - cave (and ?)
• Tung (峒)
• Tsim (尖) - sharp, sharp peak
• Tsui (嘴) - pointed headland
• Tsuen (村) - village
• Tuk (篤) - the very end (of a place)
• Wai (圍) - walled village
• Wan (灣) - bay
• Wan (環) - district
• Wo (窩) - basin, hollow, coombe
• Yiu (窰) - kiln

English

(Commonly Chinese translation in blanket)

• Bay (灣)
• Cove (澳)
• Harbour (港)
• Haven (港)
• Hill (山)
• Praya (海灘)
• Peak (山)
• Mount (山)