Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cohong

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: co-hong
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Inflected Forms

cohongs (plural) gonghang (alternative)

Questions

What does cohong mean?: A guild of Chinese merchants or hongs who operated the import-export monopoly in Canton (present-day Guangzhou) during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).

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