英文
English words carrying Cantonese meanings — and the characters that turn up in twenty thousand building names.
Universe & method
Universe. Rating and Valuation Department 'Names of Buildings' — urban_print.xls (12,396 rows) + nt_print.xls (7,660 rows) — All sheets, 20,056 building records (19,211 with Chinese name), print dated 2026-07-24, obtained 2026-08-26 at canonical/projects/canto.institute/{urban,nt}_print.xls; also at https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-rvd-tsinfo_rvd-names-of-buildings
Method. case-insensitive whole-word match (\bWORD\b) on the English name field (English field extracted via non-CJK lines from the bilingual Name cell)
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Universe. Rating and Valuation Department 'Names of Buildings' — urban_print.xls (12,396 rows) + nt_print.xls (7,660 rows) — All sheets, 20,056 building records (19,211 with Chinese name), print dated 2026-07-24, obtained 2026-08-26 at canonical/projects/canto.institute/{urban,nt}_print.xls; also published as XLS/XML at https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-rvd-tsinfo_rvd-names-of-buildings
Method. exact substring match for the single hanzi in the Chinese name field (Chinese field extracted via CJK Unicode range detection from the bilingual Name of Building cell)
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