Shek

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Cantonese.

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"At a community center on Shek Lei public housing estate in northern Hong Kong, stacks of mooncake boxes are waiting to be distributed on Mid-Autumn Festival the following day. Inside they contain some of the 76,000 mooncakes that have been collected by Food Grace, a local charity, this holiday season to be redistributed to low-income families and individuals."

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 石 (sek⁶), when the initial was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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