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Octopus card, the Glossary

The Octopus card (is a reusable contactless stored value smart card for making electronic payments in online or offline systems in Hong Kong.^[1]

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Fare collection systems in China
Products introduced in 1997
Stored-value payment card
Transport in Hong Kong

Airport Express (MTR)

The Airport Express is one of the ten rail lines of the Hong Kong MTR system (excluding the light rail network). Octopus card and Airport Express (MTR) are transport in Hong Kong.

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Apple Pay

Apple Pay is a mobile payment service by Apple Inc. that allows users to make payments in person, in iOS apps, and on the web.

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Apple Watch

The Apple Watch is a brand of smartwatch products produced by Apple.

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AsiaWorld–Expo

The AsiaWorld–Expo is one of the two major convention and exhibition facilities in Hong Kong along with Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

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Bank of China (Hong Kong)

Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, abbreviated as BOCHK, is a subsidiary of the Bank of China (via the Hong Kong-listed intermediate holding company BOC Hong Kong Holdings).

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Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.

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Café de Coral Holdings, Ltd. is a Hong Kong fast-food restaurant group that owns and operates fast-food chains and restaurants, including Café de Coral, Super Super, The Spaghetti House, Oliver's Super Sandwiches, Ah Yee Leng Tong, and others. Octopus card and Café de Coral are Hong Kong brands.

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Cantonese

Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.

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Cardinal direction

The four cardinal directions, or cardinal points, are the four main compass directions: north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, S, E, and W respectively.

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Chai Wan station

Chai Wan is the eastern terminus of the MTR on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

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Chengyu

Chengyu are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most of which consist of four Chinese characters.

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China T-union

China T-Union, also known as TU, is a contactless transport card widely used in China. Octopus card and China T-union are contactless smart cards and fare collection systems in China.

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Chinese culture

Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago.

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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival (see also § Names) is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.

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Cigna

The Cigna Group is an American multinational managed healthcare and insurance company based in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

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Circle K

Circle K Stores, Inc. is an American chain of convenience stores headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and owned by Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc., based in Laval, Quebec, Canada.

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Citybus (Hong Kong)

Citybus Limited is a bus company which provides both franchised and non-franchised service in Hong Kong.

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Coins of the Hong Kong dollar

The Hong Kong coinage, including 10¢, 20¢, 50¢, $1, $2, $5 & $10, is issued by Hong Kong Monetary Authority on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong.

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Common stored value ticket

A common stored value ticket was a plastic magnetically sensitive card used for paying fares on the MTR and KCR railway systems in Hong Kong from 1984 to 1999.

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Contactless payment systems are credit cards and debit cards, key fobs, smart cards, or other devices, including smartphones and other mobile devices, that use radio-frequency identification (RFID) or near-field communication (NFC) for making secure payments.

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A contactless smart card is a contactless credential whose dimensions are credit card size. Octopus card and contactless smart card are contactless smart cards.

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Coral Sea Ferry

Coral Sea Ferry's kai-to sailing into Kwun Tong Public Pier. Coral Sea Ferry Service Company Limited, also known as Coral Sea Ferry, is a ferry transport company in Hong Kong.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Digital card

The term digital card can refer to a physical item, such as a memory card on a camera, or, increasingly since 2017, to the digital content hosted as a virtual card or cloud card, as a digital virtual representation of a physical card.

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Digital currency

Digital currency (digital money, electronic money or electronic currency) is any currency, money, or money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on digital computer systems, especially over the internet.

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DragonBlade: The Legend of Lang

DragonBlade: The Legend of Lang is a 2005 Hong Kong 3D CGI animated adventure fantasy action comedy family martial arts film edited by Chi-Leung Kwong, written by Trevor Morris with music by Kin Law and produced by Stanley Tong.

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Education Bureau

The Education Bureau (EDB) is responsible for formulating and implementing education policies in Hong Kong.

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Electronic Payment Services

Electronic Payment Services, commonly known as EPS, is an electronic payment system based in Hong Kong, Macau, and with limited acceptance in Shenzhen since it began operations in 1985.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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EZ-Link

The EZ-Link card is a rechargeable contactless smart card and electronic money system that is primarily used as a payment method for public transport such as bus and rail lines in Singapore. Octopus card and eZ-Link are contactless smart cards.

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Face ID

Face ID is a facial recognition system designed and developed by Apple Inc. for the iPhone and iPad Pro.

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Fail-safe

In engineering, a fail-safe is a design feature or practice that, in the event of a failure of the design feature, inherently responds in a way that will cause minimal or no harm to other equipment, to the environment or to people.

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Fairwood (restaurant)

Fairwood is a fast food chain offering Chinese and Western food. Octopus card and Fairwood (restaurant) are Hong Kong brands.

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Fare evasion

Fare evasion or fare dodging is the act of travel without payment on public transit.

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Faster Payment System

Faster Payment System (FPS;, more commonly known as 轉數快) is a real-time gross settlement payment system in Hong Kong that connects traditional banks and electronic payment and digital wallet operators.

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FeliCa

FeliCa is a contactless RFID smart card system from Sony in Japan, primarily used in electronic money cards. Octopus card and FeliCa are contactless smart cards.

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Fortune Ferry

Fortune Ferry Company Ltd, more commonly known as Fortune Ferry, is a ferry operator in Hong Kong.

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Frame Relay

Frame Relay is a standardized wide area network (WAN) technology that specifies the physical and data link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology.

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Government of Hong Kong

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, commonly known as the Hong Kong Government or HKSAR Government, is the executive authorities of Hong Kong.

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Handover of Hong Kong

The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China was at midnight on 1 July 1997.

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Hang Seng Bank

Hang Seng Bank Limited is a Hong Kong-based banking and financial services company with headquarters in Central, Hong Kong. Octopus card and Hang Seng Bank are Hong Kong brands.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry

Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry Ltd (HKKF) is a ferry service company in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong Cantonese

Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of the Cantonese language of the Sino-Tibetan family.

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Hong Kong dollar

The Hong Kong dollar (sign: HK$; code: HKD) is the official currency of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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Hong Kong International Airport

Hong Kong International Airport is an international airport located on the island of Chek Lap Kok in western Hong Kong.

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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is Hong Kong's central banking institution.

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Hong Kong Tramways

Hong Kong Tramways (HKT) is a narrow-gauge tram system in Hong Kong.

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Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry

The Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company Limited (HYF), is a ferry company founded in 1897 in Hong Kong.

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HSBC

HSBC Holdings plc (滙豐; acronym from its founding member The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical and business links to East Asia and a multinational footprint.

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HSBC (Hong Kong)

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, commonly abbreviated as HSBC and formerly known as HongkongBank (styled Wayfoong by the bank), is the Hong Kong-based Asia-Pacific subsidiary of the HSBC banking group, for which it was the parent entity until 1991.

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Infinity symbol

The infinity symbol is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity.

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IPhone 4

The iPhone 4 is a smartphone that was designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the fourth generation of the iPhone lineup, succeeding the iPhone 3GS and preceding the iPhone 4s.

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IPhone 4s

The is a smartphone that was designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the fifth generation of the iPhone, succeeding the iPhone 4 and preceding the iPhone 5.

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IPhone 8

The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. They are the eleventh generation of the iPhone.

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ISO/IEC 14443

ISO/IEC 14443 Identification cards -- Contactless integrated circuit cards -- Proximity cards is an international standard that defines proximity cards used for identification, and the transmission protocols for communicating with it. Octopus card and ISO/IEC 14443 are contactless smart cards.

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Joint venture

A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance.

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KFC

KFC Corporation, doing business as KFC (also commonly referred to by its historical name Kentucky Fried Chicken), is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken.

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Kilobyte

The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Kowloon Bay

Kowloon Bay is a bay within Victoria Harbour and an neighbourhood within Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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Kowloon Motor Bus

The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited (KMB) is a bus company operating franchised services in Hong Kong.

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Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation

The Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) is a Hong Kong wholly government-owned railway and land asset manager.

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Kowloon–Canton Railway

The Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR) was a railway network in Hong Kong.

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong

The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, colloquially known as LegCo, is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong.

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Light Rail (MTR)

The Light Rail, also known as the Light Rail Transit (LRT), officially the North-West Railway, is a light rail system in Hong Kong, serving the northwestern New Territories, within Tuen Mun District and Yuen Long District.

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List of public transport smart cards

The following tables list smart cards used for public transport and other electronic purse applications.

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List of roads in Macau

This is an incomplete list of roads in Macau.

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Local area network

A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Long Win Bus

Long Win Bus Company Limited (LWB) is a bus company operating franchised services in Hong Kong.

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Luohu Commercial City

Luohu Commercial City is an enclosed shopping mall located on the Shenzhen side of the Shenzhen River, right outside the entrance/exit to Luohu Immigration Control Point.

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Macanese pataca

The Macanese pataca or Macau pataca (pataca de Macau; sign: $; abbreviation: P; ISO code: MOP) is the currency of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

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Macau Pass

The Macau Pass (formerly the Transmac IC Card and stylised as MACAU Pass) is a contactless smartcard, first introduced by Transmac in 1999, that can be used to pay for bus fares, shop, and dine in Macau. Octopus card and Macau Pass are contactless smart cards and fare collection systems in China.

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Magnetic secure transmission

Magnetic secure transmission (MST) is the name for mobile payment technology in which devices such as smartphones emit a signal that mimics the magnetic stripe on a traditional payment card.

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McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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McDull

McDull is an anthropomorphic pig cartoon character that was created in Hong Kong by cartoonist Alice Mak and Brian Tse.

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McMug

McMug is an anthropomorphic pig cartoon character from Hong Kong featured in comic strips, TV shows, and films.

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Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture.

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Mondex

Mondex was a smart card electronic cash system, implemented as a stored-value card and owned by Mastercard. Octopus card and Mondex are stored-value payment card.

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MTR

The Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is a major public transport network serving Hong Kong.

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MTR Bus

MTR Bus (legally Northwest Transit Service Area Bus Service) is a public non-franchised bus service in Hong Kong operated by the MTR Corporation, serving the northwestern part of the New Territories.

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MTR Corporation

MTR Corporation Limited is a majority government-owned public transport operator and property developer in Hong Kong which operates the Mass Transit Railway, the most popular public transport network in Hong Kong. Octopus card and MTR Corporation are Hong Kong brands.

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Mutual authentication

Mutual authentication or two-way authentication (not to be confused with two-factor authentication) refers to two parties authenticating each other at the same time in an authentication protocol.

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Navigo card

The Navigo pass (Passe Navigo) is a family of contactless smart cards that can be used for payment in public transportation in Paris and the Île-de-France region. Octopus card and Navigo card are contactless smart cards.

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Near-field communication

Near-field communication (NFC) is a set of communication protocols that enables communication between two electronic devices over a distance of or less. Octopus card and Near-field communication are contactless smart cards.

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NETS (company)

Network for Electronic Transfers, colloquially known as NETS, is a Singaporean electronic payment service provider.

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New Lantao Bus

The New Lantao Bus Company (1973) Limited, commonly known as New Lantao Bus or NLB, is a franchised bus company operating in Hong Kong.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New Territories

The New Territories (abbr. N.T.) is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula.

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New World First Bus

New World First Bus Services Limited (NWFB) was the third-largest bus operator in Hong Kong.

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Nokia

Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj in Finnish and Nokia Abp in Swedish, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865.

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Nokia 3310

The Nokia 3310 is a discontinued GSM mobile phone announced on 1 September 2000, and released in the fourth quarter of the year, replacing the popular Nokia 3210.

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Octopus

An octopus (octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.

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Octopus Cards Limited

Octopus Cards Limited is the operator of the Octopus rechargeable contactless smart card used in an electronic payment system in Hong Kong. Octopus card and Octopus Cards Limited are transport in Hong Kong.

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Octopus Holdings Limited

Octopus Holdings Limited is a holding company based in Hong Kong jointly owned by five major transport companies in the city.

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Opal card

Opal is a contactless smartcard fare collection system for public transport services in the greater Sydney area and most other urban areas of New South Wales, Australia. Octopus card and Opal card are contactless smart cards.

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Oyster card

The Oyster card is a payment method for public transport in London (and some areas around it), England, United Kingdom. Octopus card and Oyster card are contactless smart cards.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Park Island Transport

Park Island Transport Company Limited (PITCL) is a non-franchised bus company in Hong Kong.

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Parking lot

A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area intended for parking vehicles.

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Parking meter

A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park a vehicle in a particular place for a limited amount of time.

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ParknShop

ParknShop (styled PARKnSHOP) is one of the two largest supermarket chains in Hong Kong, the other being Wellcome. Octopus card and ParknShop are Hong Kong brands.

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Peak Tram

The Peak Tram is a funicular railway in Hong Kong, which carries both tourists and residents to the upper levels of Hong Kong Island.

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Peer-to-peer lending

Peer-to-peer lending, also abbreviated as P2P lending, is the practice of lending money to individuals or businesses through online services that match lenders with borrowers.

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Photo booth

A photo booth is a vending machine or modern kiosk that contains an automated, usually coin-operated, camera and film processor.

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Pig (zodiac)

The Pig (豬) or sometimes translated as the Boar is the twelfth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in Chinese zodiac, in relation to the Chinese calendar and system of horology, and paralleling the system of ten Heavenly Stems and twelve Earthly Branches.

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Pocket PC

A Pocket PC (P/PC, PPC) is a class of personal digital assistant (PDA) that runs the Windows Mobile or Windows Embedded Compact operating system that has some of the abilities of modern desktop PCs.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.

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QR code

A QR code (quick-response code) is a type of two-dimensional matrix barcode, invented in 1994, by Japanese company Denso Wave for labelling automobile parts.

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Radio-frequency identification

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects.

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Real-time computing

Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response.

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Regal Cinemas

Regal Cinemas (also Regal Entertainment Group) is an American movie theater chain headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Renminbi

The renminbi (symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB), also known as Chinese Yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China.

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Samsung

Samsung Group (stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea.

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Samsung Pay

Samsung Pay (stylized as SΛMSUNG Pay) is a mobile payment and digital wallet service, operated by the South Korean company Samsung Electronics.

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Sands Macao

Sands Macao is a hotel and casino resort located in Sé, Macau, SAR - China.

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Security hacker

A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network.

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In cryptography, a shared secret is a piece of data, known only to the parties involved, in a secure communication.

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Shenzhen railway station

Shenzhen railway station (formerly Shum Chun station), also unofficially known as Luohu railway station, is located across from Luohu Commercial City in Nanhu Subdistrict, Luohu District of Shenzhen, Guangdong and is the southern terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway.

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Shenzhen Tong

The Shenzhen Tong is a reusable contactless stored value smartcard used for electronic payments in public transportation and some other areas in Shenzhen city, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China. Octopus card and Shenzhen Tong are contactless smart cards and fare collection systems in China.

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Sing Tao Daily

The Sing Tao Daily (also known as Sing Tao Jih Pao) is among Hong Kong's oldest Chinese language newspapers.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Smart card

A smart card (SC), chip card, or integrated circuit card (ICC or IC card), is a card used to control access to a resource.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Star Ferry

The Star Ferry is a passenger ferry service operator and tourist attraction in Hong Kong.

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Starbucks

Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Store and forward

Store and forward is a telecommunications technique in which information is sent to an intermediate station where it is kept and sent at a later time to the final destination or to another intermediate station.

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Sun Ferry

Sun Ferry Services Company Limited, more widely known as Sun Ferry and formerly New World First Ferry Services (in short New World First Ferry, First Ferry or NWFF), is a ferry service company in Hong Kong.

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Taxis of Hong Kong

Hong Kong taxicabs are the principal taxi service in Hong Kong.

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Tentacle

In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, and elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates.

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Touch ID

Touch ID is an electronic fingerprint recognition feature designed and released by Apple Inc. that allows users to unlock devices, make purchases in the various Apple digital media stores (iTunes Store, App Store, and Apple Books Store), and authenticate Apple Pay online or in apps.

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Tourism in Hong Kong

The tourism industry has been an important part of the economy of Hong Kong since it shifted to a service sector model in the late 1980s and early 90s.

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Transport Department

The Transport Department of the Government of Hong Kong is a department of the civil service responsible for transportation-related policy in Hong Kong.

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Tung Chung station

Tung Chung is a station on the of the MTR rapid transport system in Hong Kong.

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Turnstile

A turnstile (also called a turnpike, gateline, baffle gate, automated gate, turn gate in some regions) is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time.

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UnionPay

UnionPay, also known as China UnionPay or by its abbreviation, CUP or UPI internationally, is a Chinese state-owned financial services corporation headquartered in Shanghai, China.

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Upass

Upass (유패스) was a prepaid card for the transportation system in Seoul and its suburbs. Octopus card and Upass are contactless smart cards.

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Vending machine

A vending machine is an automated machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or otherwise made.

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Visa Cash

Visa Cash is a smart card electronic cash system, implemented as a stored-value card owned by Visa. Octopus card and Visa Cash are stored-value payment card.

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Vix Technology

Vix Technology (Vix) is an Australian company that designs, supplies and operates automated fare collection (AFC) systems, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), access, payment and passenger information display systems (PIDS) for the public transit industry.

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References

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

Also known as Ba da tong, Octopus Cards, .

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Octopus card, the Glossary

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Fare collection systems in China

Products introduced in 1997

Stored-value payment card