On the Place Names with the Word"Kong"(崆)in the Mountainous Areas of Guangdong——Starting from the Highest Peak in Guangdong,"Shikengkong"
Place names with"Kong(崆)"are commonly found in the mountainous areas of northern and eastern Guangdong,such as the highest peak in Guangdong,"Shikengkong".As a place name,"Kong"(崆)is also written as"埪"and"硿"in various places,all of which belong to dialect words.Its original Chinese character is"Kong(空)"(empty).It is used in the Hakka dialect to denote mountain depressions,pits,and valleys and later also to the name of the mountain.Such place names are distributed in the Hakka region of Guangdong,and can be regarded as characteristic words of the Hakka dialect.