Ming

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Ming (明) is a common personal name among Chinese people, Vietnamese people, and Korean people. In pinyin, it is written Míng, in romanized Vietnamese, it is written as Minh, and in Korean it is pronounced Myeong. Directly translated as "enlightenment", the Chinese character is a conjunction of the words sun (日) and moon (月), representing light, and therefore enlightenment. It may also mean:

[edit] People

• Ming Tsai, a celebrity chef
• Ming-Na (born 1963), an American actress
• Yan Pei Ming (born 1960), a Chinese born painter
• Yao Ming, professional NBA player from China
• Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader
• Ngoc Minh, a Vietnamese poet
• Ming, a fictional character in the Japanese role-playing game Lost Odyssey
• The Scottish name Menzies is traditionally pronounced /ˈmɪŋɪs/ MING-iss, and a shortened form is "Ming"
  • Robert Menzies (nicknamed "Ming"), an Australian Prime Minister (using the pronunciation "Men-zeez" for his surname)
  • British politician Menzies Campbell (using the pronunciation "MING-iss") is often called "Ming"
• Ming Tregonning, Games Programmer, UK
• Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, the Irish politician and cannabis legalisation campaigner, who takes his name from his resemblance to the fictional Ming the Merciless

[edit] Chinese Emperors

• Ming Dynasty, the ruling dynasty in China from 1368 to 1644
• Emperor Ming of Han (28-75)
• Emperor Ming of Wei (205-239), see Cao Rui
• Emperor Ming of Zhao (274 - 333), see Shi Le
• Emperor Ming of Jin (299 - 325)
• Emperor Ming of Liu Song (439 - 472)
• Emperor Ming of Southern Qi (452 - 498)
• Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou (534 - 560)

[edit] Other uses

• Ming (typeface), a common typeface for writing Chinese characters
• Ming class submarine, a class of diesel-electric submarines built by China
• Motorola MING, a smartphone released by Motorola
• Ming library, a C library with dynamic language bindings for creating Adobe Flash (.swf) files
• Ming-Ming Duckling, a character from Wonder Pets
• Ming, a tiger who lived in a New York apartment
• Ming the Merciless is a fictional villain in the Flash Gordon stories
• Ming (Flash Gordon 2007) is an updated version of Ming the Merciless.
• Ming (clam) is a clam, claimed to be the oldest animal ever discovered.
• Ming (verb) is word in British English slang meaning dirty, disgusting or (of a person) ugly, e.g. "he mings"'.

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