资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hong \Hong\, n. [Chinese hang, Canton dialect hong, a mercantile
   house, factory.]
   A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in
   China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices
   connected by a common passage and used for business or
   storage.

   {Hong merchant}, one of the few Chinese merchants who,
      previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had
      the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.