禾 (he) means "cereal, grain"
甘 (gan) means "sweet"
香 (xiang) combines the two and means "sweet food", also "fragrant, savory, appetizing, scented"
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廾 (gong) means "hands joined", or "pair of hands"
十 (shi) means "ten"
廿 (nian) means "twenty". It is ten doubled.
共 (gong) means "twenty pairs of hands". Also "all, all together, common, general"
邑 (yi) means "city"
巷 (xiang) means "lane,alley" and is a city area open to all
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水 (shui) means "water, river"
港 (gang) means "harbor". It combines water and lane.
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香港 (xiang-gang) thus means "fragrant harbor" and is the Chinese name of Hong Kong. This is so commonly used that the second character by itself ("harbor") also refers to Hong Kong.
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