阿媽港あまこう

Written forms

• 阿媽港あまこう

  Historical kanji spelling for Macao, using ateji. Rarely used in modern Japanese.

• 亜媽港あまこう

  Variant historical spelling for Macao. Even rarer than 阿媽港.

Etymology

From Chinese 阿媽港 “A-Ma harbor,” an old name for Macao associated with A-Ma, the sea goddess 媽祖.