The story
- Cantonese · borrowed from香港“incense harbor”
- English todayHong Kong
An irregular romanization of Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong², “incense harbor”), the former name of a settlement in what is now Aberdeen on the southwest side of Hong Kong Island, where joss stick incense was stored for export, made from agarwood.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.