kaifong

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 街坊 (gaai1 fong1) in the mid-1800s.[1]

Noun

kaifong (plural kaifongs)

  1. A kind of mutual aid organization in Hong Kong, originally set up under British colonial rule, and mainly intended to provide free or cheap services to Chinese refugees.

References
  1. “kaifong, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “kaifong, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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