Chek Hom

alternative Chekhom

1. datedDated form of Chikan.

   She tracked down the home village of every woman who came, she remembered every temple, every store, and every road in a place called Chek Hom, where they had brought the pigs to market.

   1978, Eleanor Wong Telemaque, It's Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70

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   Our last halting place was for the Sabbath at the town of Chek Hom in the district of Hoi Peng, where there is a small but flourishing, self-supporting church now started under the auspices of the Presbyterian Mission.

   1884 April [1884 January 25], F. W. Damon, “Rambles in China No. 4”, in The Friend, volume 33, number 4, Honolulu, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29

   As we entered Chek Hom—my mother's village—the portraits my parents had drawn vanished into the dusty air, replaced by actual people, deeply lined and tanned, going about their business in town.

   1994, Ben Fong-Torres, The Rice Room: a Memoir of Growing up Chinese-American, Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 246