What does "heng" mean?

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.

Heng

//heŋ// adj, name, noun

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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.

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

"Damn heng... The bus tire puncture right before my stop. Bad luck everyone else though."

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.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.