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Can you comment on the history of the name, printed as 港 on the bills? For those unaware, the character means "harbour"; it's the Kong in Hong Kong – is there any relationship to the HKD?

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The Chinese name 港幣 may be confusing for Chinese speakers as it's already common short hand for HKD, e.g. the "二十塊港幣" shown on the Kong illustration already means "twenty HKD bucks," not some new currency like "twenty Kong."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_dollar

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21758004

I am not familiar with Snow Crash myself and I read the Wikipedia page [1] on it and it makes sense what you're going for; but just want to say that for someone who was born in HK, seeing the term 港幣 really can only mean HKD in my head, and it's difficult for me to process that it means something else. Even as you keep the name Kong, have you considered calling this something else in Chinese aside from 港幣 specifically?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

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