Both Cantonese and Putonghua are spoken in Hong Kong, which has created many different ways to romanise the different pronunciations of 香港, the Chinese characters for "Hong Kong".

Cantonese

• IPA: ;
• Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2;
• Yale: heūng góng;

Mandarin

• Pinyin: Xiānggǎng;
• Wade-Giles: Hsiang-kang

"Hong Kong" is an approximate transliteration of the Chinese name based on its Cantonese pronunciation.