Etymology

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Today it means: A character (ɧ) used for the sound used in some dialects of Swedish that resembles both IPA [x] and [ʃ]. Full definition →

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The story

Created by Pullum & Ladusaw in 1986 by extending the name of the visually similar heng.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.