# heng
## English
### Etymology 1

Blend of h +‎ eng.

#### Noun

heng (plural hengs)
* 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.

##### Derived terms

* hooktop heng

### Etymology 2

From Hokkien 幸 (hēng, “fortunate”) or Teochew 興 / 兴 (hêng$^1$, “fortunate”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Singapore) IPA: /heŋ/

#### Adjective

heng (comparative more heng, superlative most heng)
* (Manglish, Singlish) Fortunate, lucky.
** 2015 June 24, @BurgerBing, Twitter‎: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.

##### Derived terms

* heng ah

### Anagrams

* Engh, Ngeh, ENHG

## Dutch
### Etymology

(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”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɦɛŋ/
* Rhymes: -ɛŋ
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

heng f (plural hengen)
* moving leaf of a hinge, affixed to the moving part

#### Coordinate terms

* duim

## Indonesian
### Etymology 1

From English hand.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɛŋ/
* Hyphenation: hèng

#### Verb

heng
* (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.

### Etymology 2

From English hang.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɛŋ/
* Hyphenation: hèng

#### Adjective

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

### Further reading

* “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.

## Ludian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *henki.

### Noun

heng
* soul

## Mandarin
### Romanization

heng
* Nonstandard spelling of hēng.
* Nonstandard spelling of héng.
* Nonstandard spelling of hèng.

#### Usage notes

* 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.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

heng
* imperative of henge

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

heng
* imperative of hengja

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

heng
* inflection of henga:
** present
** imperative

## Old English
### Verb

hēng
* first/third-person singular preterite indicative of hōn

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *henki.

### Noun

heng
* soul
* spirit
* personality, character
* person, personage

#### Derived terms

* üks'heng
* hengenahtištuz
* hengenkaičii
* hengenpoltand
* hengentäptuz

### References

* 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]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

## Zhuang
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /heːŋ˨˦/
* Tone numbers: heng$^1$
* Hyphenation: heng

### Noun

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