Crossword clues for cheng
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheng \Cheng\, n. [Chinese.] A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of sheng English) (Chinese wind instrument)
Wikipedia
Cheng can be a transcription of one of several Chinese surnames. Since the syllable Cheng represents different sounds in Hanyu pinyin and the Wade–Giles systems of Chinese romanization, some ambiguity will exist as to which sound is represented by the letters "Cheng" if the romanisation and tone is not known. Also within each system of romanisation, each syllable can represent one of several different characters, as with any Chinese syllable.
In the pinyin system of romanization (usually used in China), the most common surnames romanized as Cheng are 程 and 成.
In names romanized in Wade–Giles (usually used in Taiwan), Cheng is most commonly a transcription of 鄭/郑 (pinyin Zhèng).
Further confusion arises because Wade–Giles often appears without the required apostrophes (which indicates aspiration), and thus some Wade–Giles names which are properly romanized Ch'eng (such as 程 pinyin Chéng) will appear as Cheng.
Cheng may refer to:
- Cheng County, in Gansu, China
- Cheng Han, a common name for the Chinese state of Cheng (304-338 AD) and its successor, the state of Han
- Cheng language, a Mon–Khmer language of southern Laos
- Cheng (musical instrument), an ancient Chinese musical instrument
- Cheng (surname), Chinese surname
- Cheng Township, in Malacca, Malaysia
- An abbreviation for Chief engineer
Usage examples of "cheng".
I did not mind so long as it kept me away from the Starving Mongoose, but this morning Cheng Fu took our son away from his studies.
I even brought Cheng Fu his favorite lunch of pork dumplings and prostrated myself before him in shame.
I think perhaps, like me, he understands more than he shows, and so now I must be very careful when I translate for Cheng Fu.
But we will be in the back at the old table while Cheng Fu talks with customers.
After all, it looked as if the Cheng dressmakers were on their last legs.
He had come during lunch, you see, and so out of politeness Cheng Fu offered to share.
If any Chinese man had done such a thing, Cheng Fu would have flown into a rage.
And then, before he left, he spoke to me in English so Cheng Fu would not understand.
He would be stricken from the Cheng records, disowned by his father and relatives, and cast aside without family connections or recourse.
Indeed, Ru Shan suspected that Lydia had somehow asked the man to buy the Cheng family shop.
In his mind, they represented himself and his Lydia, together forever, holding up the beautiful tendrils of her hair just as together they would support the entire Cheng family.
He had spoken quickly, and in a low undertone that the Cheng family had not heard.
He could not even hold on to a white wife who could save the Cheng family.
A second wife, of little importance except that she could make the designs that would bring gold to the Cheng family.
But he knew that would only deepen the evil that beset the Cheng family.