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Meaning or Remarks
113 wat 尉 what
The old name for the present should probably be so pronounced.
114 wo 窩 # whoh3
An inner valley with a very steep head.
115 wo- 窩塘 whohtong
Flat land at the head of a spur,
116 WO- tong 禾塘 wrohtong
A threshing floor. (So called in English, but actually the place where the threshed grain is spread in the sun to dry out).
117 wong # wrong 黄王
Occurs where neither a colour, nor ‘king' nor either surname makes sense, that required being 'high'.
118 wongchuk 王竹 wronqzhuk
See my paper "Wongchuk = Left, Wongma = Right?" submitted to Symposium on Historical, Archaeological and Linguistic Studies, University of Hong Kong, Sept. 1961.*
119 wongma 黄媽 wronqmaah
120 wongye 爺 wrongyeah
A very important local divinity that guards the principal passes and rules all the pak-kung (64) of an area. In place names often corrupted to Wong-yi, Wong-nai, etc., see ye (123).
121 yan 岩 jran3
Precipice. Also pronounced ying (127).
*The Symposium papers were published by Hong Kong University Press, 1967, F. S. Drake editor.