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Over the years, Hong Kong Cantonese has also absorbed foreign terminology and developed a large set of Hong Kong-specific terms. Code-switching with English is also common. As of 2021, 88.2% of Hong Kong's population identified Cantonese as their "usual spoken language," while 93.7% reported being able to speak it.
A Cantonese syllable usually includes an initial and a final ().The Cantonese syllabary has about 630 syllables. Some like /kʷeŋ˥/ (扃), /ɛː˨/ and /ei˨/ (欸) are no longer common; some like /kʷek˥/ and /kʷʰek˥/ (隙), or /kʷaːŋ˧˥/ and /kɐŋ˧˥/ (梗), have traditionally had two equally correct pronunciations but its speakers are starting to pronounce them in only one ...
Electronic Payment Services (simplified Chinese: 易办事; traditional Chinese: 易辦事; pinyin: Yì bànshì), commonly known as EPS, is an electronic payment system based in Hong Kong, Macau, and with limited acceptance in Shenzhen since it began operations in 1985.
[3] [5] It consists of a group of experts with the background in the payment industry with headquarters in Hong Kong. In 2015, it was certified as a service provider for Visa and MasterCard. In 2016, it received Hong Kong License for Operating Money Service. [3] In 2017, it became a certified acquirer for AMEX. [citation needed]
Faster Payment System (FPS; Chinese: 快速支付系統, more commonly known as 轉數快) is a real-time gross settlement [1] payment system in Hong Kong that connects traditional banks and electronic payment and digital wallet operators. [2]
The first Mott 32 opened in Hong Kong in 2014. [2] The name comes from the address 32 Mott Street in New York City , the location of the first Chinese grocery store which opened in 1891. [ 3 ] In 2017, Mott 32 opened its first North American location at the Paradox Hotel in Vancouver .
The She language (Mandarin: 畲語, Shēyǔ), autonym Ho Le [5] or Ho Ne, /hɔ22 ne53/ or Ho Nte, is a critically endangered Hmong–Mien language spoken by the She people. [6] ...
The reconstruction of Old Chinese typically starts from "Early Middle Chinese", the phonological system of the Qieyun, a rhyme dictionary published in 601, with many revisions and expansions over the following centuries.