heng

Blend of h +‎ eng.

heng (plural hengs)

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.

• hooktop heng

From Teochew 興 / 兴 (hêng¹, “fortunate”) or Hokkien 幸 (hēng, “fortunate”). Compare Thai เฮง (heng), Khmer ហេង (heeng), Vietnamese hên.

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /heŋ/

heng (comparative more heng, superlative most heng)

1. (Manglish, Singlish) Fortunate, lucky.
   • 2015 June 24, @BurgerBing, Twitter‎^[1]:

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

   • 2018, Jean Tay, Sisters & Senang: The Island Plays, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Scene 12, page 73:

     But Sunny very heng [lucky]... No damage on the driver's side.

   • 2022 April 26, Unregistered, “Roles in accenture singapore”, in Salary.sg Forums:

     Most Heng is join few month before June 2021. Your pay got adjusted to $4900 with all the new joiners in June + got 5k bonus.

• heng ah

• Engh, Ngeh, ENHG

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “surely related to hangen and En hinge”)

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋ

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heng f (plural hengen)

1. moving leaf of a hinge, affixed to the moving part

• duim

From English hand.

• IPA^(key): /hɛŋ/
• Hyphenation: hèng

heng

1. (colloquial, sports, soccer) handball, the offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or hands on the field during play

From English hang.

• IPA^(key): /hɛŋ/
• Hyphenation: hèng

heng

1. (colloquial, computing) hang, an instance of ceasing to respond

• “heng” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Finnic *henki.

heng

1. soul

heng

1. nonstandard spelling of hēng
2. nonstandard spelling of héng
3. nonstandard spelling of hèng

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

heng

1. imperative of henge

heng

1. imperative of hengja

heng

1. inflection of henga:
   1. present
   2. imperative

hēng

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of hōn

From Proto-Finnic *henki.

heng

1. soul
2. spirit
3. personality, character
4. person, personage

• üks'heng
• hengenahtištuz
• hengenkaičii
• hengenpoltand
• hengentäptuz

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “герой, дух, душа, персона, персонаж”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Tai *χiəŋᴬ; cognate with Thai เขียง (kǐiang), Northern Thai ᨡ᩠ᨿᨦ, Lao ຂຽງ (khīang), Khün ᨡ᩠ᨿᨦ, Lü ᦵᦃᧂ (ẋeng), Shan ၶဵင် (khǎeng), Tai Nüa ᥑᥥᥒᥴ (xéng).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /heːŋ˨˦/
• Tone numbers: heng¹
• Hyphenation: heng

heng (Sawndip forms 𱣒 or ⿱行口 or 梈 or ⿰石杏 or ⿰石𪥌 or 𮀖, 1957–1982 spelling heŋ)

1. chopping board