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Ming is a common personal name among Chinese people
Chinese people

The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People who reside in and hold citizenship of the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China or the Republic of China ....
, Vietnamese people
Vietnamese people

The Vietnamese people are an ethnic group originating from what is now northern Vietnam and southern People's Republic of China. They are the majority ethnic group of Vietnam, comprising 86% of the population as of the 1999 census, and are officially known as Kinh to distinguish them from other List of ethnic groups in Vietnam....
, and Korean people
Korean people

The Korean people are an ethnic group originating in East Asia. Most Koreans speak the Korean language....
. In pinyin, it is written Míng, in romanized Vietnamese, it is written as Minh
Minh

Minh is a common personal name among Vietnamese people. It is derived from the Chinese name Ming . The difference is due to the way of romanization. Directly translated as being "bright" ....
, and in Korean it is pronounced Myeong. Directly translated as "enlightenment", the Chinese character
Chinese character

A Chinese character, also known as a Han character , is a logogram used in writing Chinese language ,'' Japanese language ,'' less frequently Korean language ,'' and formerly Vietnamese language .''...
 is a conjunction of the words sun and moon, representing light, and therefore enlightenment. It may also mean:








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Ming is a common personal name among Chinese people
Chinese people

The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People who reside in and hold citizenship of the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China or the Republic of China ....
, Vietnamese people
Vietnamese people

The Vietnamese people are an ethnic group originating from what is now northern Vietnam and southern People's Republic of China. They are the majority ethnic group of Vietnam, comprising 86% of the population as of the 1999 census, and are officially known as Kinh to distinguish them from other List of ethnic groups in Vietnam....
, and Korean people
Korean people

The Korean people are an ethnic group originating in East Asia. Most Koreans speak the Korean language....
. In pinyin, it is written Míng, in romanized Vietnamese, it is written as Minh
Minh

Minh is a common personal name among Vietnamese people. It is derived from the Chinese name Ming . The difference is due to the way of romanization. Directly translated as being "bright" ....
, and in Korean it is pronounced Myeong. Directly translated as "enlightenment", the Chinese character
Chinese character

A Chinese character, also known as a Han character , is a logogram used in writing Chinese language ,'' Japanese language ,'' less frequently Korean language ,'' and formerly Vietnamese language .''...
 is a conjunction of the words sun and moon, representing light, and therefore enlightenment. It may also mean:

People

  • Ming Tsai
    Ming Tsai

    Ming Tsai is an United States fusion cuisine chef and restaurateur who currently hosts two cooking shows – Ming's Quest on the Fine Living television channel and Simply Ming on American Public Television – and formerly hosted East Meets West on the Food Network, for which he won an Emmy Award....
    , a celebrity chef
  • Ming-Na
    Ming-Na

    Ming-Na Wen is an China-United States actress. She has been credited with and without her family name, but most credits since the late 1990s have been without it....
     (born 1963), an American actress
  • Yan Pei Ming
    Yan Pei-Ming

    Yan Pei-Ming is a Chinese painter born in 1960 in Shanghai. Since 1982 he has lived in Dijon, France. His most famous paintings are "epic-sized" portraits of Mao Zedong worked out in black and white or red and white....
     (born 1960), a Chinese born painter
  • Yao Ming
    Yao Ming

    Yao Ming is a professional basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association . He is currently the tallest player in the NBA, at ....
    , professional NBA player from China
  • Ho Chi Minh
    Ho Chi Minh

    H? Ch? Minh was a Vietnamese communism revolutionary and statesman who was Prime Minister and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ....
    , Vietnamese leader
  • Ngoc Minh
    Ngoc Minh

    Ngoc Minh was a China Qin Dynasty poet, well known for the poem "Islands of the Immortals" , on the reputedly existing islands, which were said to give eternal life....
    , a Vietnamese poet
  • Ming, a fictional character in the Japanese
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
     role-playing game Lost Odyssey
    Lost Odyssey

    is a console role-playing game developed by Mistwalker and feelplus Inc. and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. The player takes control of Kaim, a man who has lived for a thousand years and who has no memory of his past....
  • The Scottish name Menzies
    Menzies

    Menzies is a Scotland surname and a variant of Manners and is commonly gaelicised as M?inn. See also Clan Menzies.The name is correctly pronounced , but previously , since the is in fact a surrogate for the letter ....
     is traditionally pronounced "MING-iss" and a shortened form is "Ming"
    • Robert Menzies
      Robert Menzies

      Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Order of the Thistle, Order of Australia, Order of the Companions of Honour, Queen's Counsel , Australian politician, was the twelfth Prime Minister of Australia....
       (nicknamed "Ming"), an Australian Prime Minister (using the pronunciation "Men-zeez" for his surname)
    • British politician Menzies Campbell
      Menzies Campbell

      Sir Walter Menzies Campbell Order of the British Empire Queen's Counsel , commonly known as Ming Campbell, is a United Kingdom politician, Advocate#Advocates_in_Scotland and retired Sprint ....
       (using the pronunciation "MING-iss") is often called "Ming"
  • Ming Tregonning, Games Programmer, UK


Chinese Emperors

  • Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty

    The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
    , the ruling dynasty in China from 1368 to 1644
  • Emperor Ming of Han
    Emperor Ming of Han

    Emperor Ming of Han, , was second emperor of China of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.He was the second son of Emperor Guangwu of Han. It was during Emperor Ming's reign that Buddhism began to spread into China....
     (28-75)
  • Emperor Ming of Wei (205-239), see Cao Rui
    Cao Rui

    Cao Rui was the son of Cao Pi and the second emperor of the Cao Wei. He is also known as the Emperor Ming of Wei, ch. ???, py. w?i m?ng d?, wg....
  • Emperor Ming of Zhao (274 - 333), see Shi Le
    Shi Le

    Shi Le , courtesy name Shilong , formally Emperor Ming of Zhao , was the founding emperor of the History of China/Jie state Later Zhao....
  • Emperor Ming of Jin
    Emperor Ming of Jin

    Emperor Ming of Jin , personal name Sima Shao , courtesy name Daoji , was an emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty . During his brief reign , he led the weakened Jin out of domination by the warlord Wang Dun, but at his early death, the empire was left to his young son Emperor Cheng of Jin, and the fragile balance of power that he...
     (299 - 325)
  • Emperor Ming of Liu Song
    Emperor Ming of Liu Song

    Emperor Ming of Liu Song , personal name Liu Yu , courtesy name Xiubing , nickname Rongqi , was an emperor of the History of China dynasty Liu Song....
     (439 - 472)
  • Emperor Ming of Southern Qi
    Emperor Ming of Southern Qi

    Emperor Ming of Southern Qi , personal name Xiao Luan , courtesy name Jingqi , nickname Xuandu , was an emperor of the History of China dynasty Southern Qi....
     (452 - 498)
  • Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou
    Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou

    Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou , personal name Yuwen Yu , nickname Tongwantu , was an emperor of the History of China/Xianbei dynasty Northern Zhou, although at the start of his reign he used the alternative title "Heavenly Prince" ....
     (534 - 560)


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
    Motorola MING

    Motorola MING or Motorola A1200 is a smartphone released by Motorola aimed at the Hong Kong market. It is one of the Motorola List of Motorola products#Four Letter series....
    , a smartphone released by Motorola
  • Ming library
    Ming library

    Ming is a C library for creating Adobe Flash files. It is often packaged as a PHP module; this allows for the dynamic generation of Flash animations by the web server based on input from a database....
    , a C library with dynamic language bindings for creating Adobe Flash (.swf) files
  • Ming-Ming Duckling, a character from Wonder Pets
  • Ming
    Ming of Harlem

    Ming was a young tiger, perhaps no more than 2 years old, who lived in an apartment on the 5th floor of a large living complex in Harlem, New York in 2003....
    , a tiger who lived in a New York apartment
  • Ming the Merciless
    Ming the Merciless

    Ming the Merciless is a fictional character who first appeared in the Flash Gordon comic strip in 1934. He has since been the main villain of the strip and its related movie serial, TV shows and film adaptation....
     is a fictional villain in the Flash Gordon stories
  • Ming (Flash Gordon 2007) is an updated version of Ming the Merciless.
  • Ming (clam)
    Ming (clam)

    Ming is the nickname given to a specimen of an ocean quahog clam, Arctica islandica, family Veneridae, and is the oldest living animal ever discovered....
     is a clam, claimed to be the oldest animal ever discovered.
  • Ming (verb) is word in British English slang
    Slang

    Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language....
     meaning dirty, disgusting or (of a person) ugly, e.g. "he mings"'.