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hyung

nounattested in dialogue

  • //hjʌŋ//

An affectionate term of address for an older brother or somewhat older man.

noun

  1. 1

    An affectionate term of address for an older brother or somewhat older man.

  2. 2

    An older male member of an idol group.

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 형(兄) (hyeong, “older brother of a man”).

Forms

plural
hyungs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).