Kongmoon

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Dated form of Jiangmen. alt-of, dated

    "Reaching Samshui the stream bifurcates, one branch moving northward past Fatshan and Canton, thence being known as the Chu Kiang or Pearl River, and the other still retaining the name of West River and sweeping past Kongmoon to the sea."

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jiangmen

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"Reaching Samshui the stream bifurcates, one branch moving northward past Fatshan and Canton, thence being known as the Chu Kiang or Pearl River, and the other still retaining the name of West River and sweeping past Kongmoon to the sea."

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Cantonese 江門 /江门 (gong¹ mun⁴).

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