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Heng
//heŋ// adj, name, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Fortunate, lucky. Manglish, Singlish
"Damn heng... The bus tire puncture right before my stop. Bad luck everyone else though."
Proper Noun
- 1 A former prefecture of imperial China around Zhengding, Shijiazhuang, Hebei historical
- 2 A Chinese surname from Teochew.
- 3 A Chinese surname.
- 4 A former prefecture of imperial China around Quyang, Baoding, Hebei historical
Noun
- 1 The character ꜧ, combining an h and an eng, which stands for the hypothetical phoneme in English that includes both [h] and [ŋ] as its allophones.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Blend of h + eng.
Etymology 2
From Teochew 興 /兴 (hêng¹, “fortunate”) or Hokkien 幸 (hēng, “fortunate”). Compare Thai เฮง (heng), Khmer ហេង (heeng), Vietnamese hên.
Etymology 3
From Wade–Giles and Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 恆 /恒 (Héng).
Etymology 4
From romanization of the Teochew pronunciation Hêng⁵ of Chinese 王, Mandarin Wáng.
Etymology 5
From romanization of the Hokkien pronunciation Hêng of Chinese 邢, Mandarin Xíng.
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