heh

English

Etymology 1

Noun

heh (plural hehs)

1. The fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Semitic letter

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呵 (zh) (hē)

• Finnish: he (fi)
• Hebrew: ה״א (hey)
• Nengone: nenij
• Yiddish: הא (hey)

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia of a weak laugh.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Interjection

heh

1. (onomatopoeia) Weak amusement, sometimes signaling boredom.

   Friend 1: Some people say a man is made outta mud.

   Friend 2: Heh.

Etymology 3

Interjection

heh

1. Alternative form of eh (“tag question”)
   • 2017, Stephen Randorf, Murder Over The Bones:

     He handed the fragment to Bass, saying, “A cold-blooded little thing—heh? Not really. They just acted that way, the way they bite. And little? Ha! Its wing span was eighteen feet.”

Anagrams

• ehh

Finnish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheh/, [ˈhe̞h]
• Rhymes: -eh
• Syllabification^(key): heh

Interjection

heh

1. (onomatopoeia) heh (short chuckle or laugh)

Usage notes

• Variations: heh-heh, hehee, he-he-he,...

Further reading

• “heh”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese 鞋 (MC hea|heaj).

Noun

heh 

1. shoe