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Ling

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Ling may refer to:

Places

  • Ling County, in Shandong, China
  • Ling, County Londonderry, a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Fictional characters

  • Ling, an ally of James Bond's from the film You Only Live Twice
  • Gesar of Ling, mythical Tibetan culture-hero
  • Ling Bouvier, a fictional character from The Simpsons
  • Bàba, Māma, and Gwen Ling, characters from American Dad!
  • Ling Woo, a fictional character from Ally McBeal
  • Ling Xiaoyu, a fictional character from the Tekken series
  • Ling Yao, a character from the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist and its 2009 anime adaption Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Fish

Plants

  • Calluna, a genus of flowering plants known as ling or heather
  • Water caltrop or ling nut (Chinese: líng )

Other uses

  • Ling (surname), a surname of various origins
  • Ling, an abbreviation of linguistics
  • County magistrate or xian ling (Chinese: 縣令), a government official in imperial China
  • Lingam or ling, a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Ling
  • -ling, an English diminutive suffix
  • Ling-Ling (disambiguation)
  • Linga (disambiguation)
  • Lingchi, "death by a thousand cuts"
  • Linh, the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese character 靈 (líng)
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