Meaning of Kongmoon | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of Jiangmen.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“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.”

“Tang Pun-yan (the pro-Chan general now holding the southern peninsula of Kwangtung) is advancing by two routes to attack Kongmoon. Fighting has broken out at Yanping (in the Sze Yap districts).”

“The Japanese Army had taken Kongmoon, South China, in 1939, but the American priests there went on with their mission tasks and in addition dispensed rice and wheat daily to the thousands of starving refugees.”

“With the exception of Shiukwan on the Canton-Hankow railroad, Kwangtung’s regional centers are situated along the coast, notably in the Canton delta. There, in addition to Canton, are the cities of Fatshan, Kongmoon and Shekki.”

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