The five directions of Wing Chun...

[geezer]

That's a bit unfriendly. I am happy to go with the approved terminology

Sorry. I'm normally a pretty friendly sort. And usually you and I manage to agree or disagree respectfully. Feel free to disregard what I said above.

 

[LFJ]

Sure. Different characters that are pronounced the exact same way. So the convention has widely become to render the "beautiful" character as "Wing" and the "eternal" character as "Weng." That is widely accepted in the community.

That character doesn't mean beautiful at all. Where did that idea come from?

詠 is ideogram (言 speech radical) plus phonetic compound (永).

It means to sing, or to describe or express emotion through poetic verse, or can refer to poetic verse itself.