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1879xxx – Public service, charity hotline; 1880 – Hong Kong Jockey Club Customer Service; 1881 to 1889 – Hong Kong Jockey Club phone gambling (Telebet) 189 – Disaster Response / Disaster Recovery; 19 – Test code / routing code; 200 – Telephone card access code; 201xxxxx to 206xxxxx – Fixed-line telephone; 207, 208, 209 ...
Standard Cantonese. The principal vernacular language of Hong Kong is standard Cantonese (Chinese: 粵語, 廣州話, 廣東話, 廣府話, 白話, 本地話), [9] spoken by 88.9% of the population. It is used as a colloquial language in all areas of daily life, government, and administration.
Hong Kong Cantonese. Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of the Cantonese language (廣東話，粵語), which is in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Cantonese is lingua franca of populations living in the Guangdong Province of mainland China, in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in many overseas Chinese ...
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港; Cantonese Yale: Hēunggóng) is a station of the MTR metro system in Hong Kong. It is the eastern terminus of the Tung Chung line and Airport Express. It is situated between Man Cheung Street and Harbour View Street, Central, Hong Kong Island, and sits underneath the International Finance Centre (IFC). It opened on ...
Another key feature of Hong Kong Cantonese is the two syllabic nasals /ŋ̩˨˩/ and /m̩˨˩/ merging. This can be exemplified in the elimination of the contrast of sounds between 吳 (Ng, a surname) ([ŋ̩˨˩] in Guangzhou pronunciation) and 唔 (not) ([m̩˨˩] in Guangzhou pronunciation). Hong Kong Cantonese pronounce both words as the ...
Cantonese Internet Slang (Chinese: 廣東話網上俗語) is an informal language originating from Internet forums, chat rooms, and other social platforms. It is often adapted with self-created and out-of-tradition forms. Cantonese Internet Slang is prevalent among young Cantonese speakers and offers a reflection of the youth culture of Hong Kong.
It became Hong Kong's official symbol in 1965 and appeared on the flag of Hong Kong after the 1997 handover. Since Hong Kong produced a large number of films, pop songs, and soap operas to promote Cantonese culture, Hong Kong, and by extension the Hong Kong orchid, is widely held to be the symbol of modern Cantonese culture.
Hong Kong's population reached 6.99 million in 2006, [1] of which approximately 95% are of Chinese descent, the majority of which was Yue Chinese, such as Cantonese; and Hakka and Teochew. Some writers and media of Hong Kong use written Cantonese as publishing. Government of Hong Kong standardizes those written Cantonese characters in Hong Kong ...