Given name · Burmese · unknown
ခင်
“father, grandfather, honorific”
ခင် (hkang) is a unisex given name from Proto-Lolo-Burmese, meaning “father, grandfather, honorific.” It is used in Burmese.
Burmese and unknownWritten in Myanmar script. In English: hkang.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *kaŋ (“father, grandfather, honorific”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
ခင်’s family of names
In Burmese usage, ခင် can be written in the Roman alphabet as hkang. ခင် can be written in the Roman alphabet as ขัง.
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