What 헹 means
It has two recorded readings. As of 2026, Korean references record 헹 as a regional word in Gyeongsang, southeastern Korea, for an older brother, and as a sound word for nose-blowing or a mocking snort.
헹 is built from ㅎ + ㅔ + ㅇ, which spell its sound. Hangul was created in 1443; its principles and purpose were explained in 1446. It was designed to make Korean easier to write than Chinese characters.
Dialectal as a kinship word; informal and potentially dismissive as a sound.
A lone 헹 can sound dismissive; check the surrounding message.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsQuestions people ask
1Why does 헹 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 헹
헹\D5F9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.