Ling may refer to:
Fictional characters
* Ling, an
ally of James Bond's from the film ''You Only Live Twice''
* Ling, a character in the ''
Mulan
Hua Mulan () is a legendary folk heroine from the Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century CE) of Chinese history.
According to legend, Mulan took her aged father's place in the conscription for the army by disguising herself as ...
'' franchise
* Ling, a playable character from the mobile game ''
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang''
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Ling Bouvier
The Simpson family are the fictional characters featured in the animated television series ''The Simpsons''. The Simpsons are a nuclear family consisting of married couple Homer and Marge and their three children, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The ...
, a fictional character from ''The Simpsons''
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Ling Woo, a fictional character from ''Ally McBeal''
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Ling Xiaoyu, a fictional character from the ''Tekken'' series
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Ling Yao, a character from the manga series ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' and its 2009 anime adaption ''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''
* Bàba, Māma, and Gwen Ling,
characters from ''American Dad!''
Fish
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Atlantic cod, formerly called ''ling'' when salted
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Blue ling
The blue ling (''Molva dypterygia'') is a member of the cod family from the North Atlantic. It is usually 70 to 110 cm long, but the maximum length is 155 cm. Blue ling feed on fish (flatfishes, gobies, rocklings) and crustaceans and be ...
(''Molva dypterygia'')
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Burbot (''Lota lota'') or freshwater ling
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Cobia (''Rachycentron canadum'')
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Common ling (''Molva molva'')
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Pink cusk-eel
The pink cusk-eel, ''Genypterus blacodes'', is a demersal species of cusk-eel found in the oceans around southern Australia, Chile, Brazil, and around New Zealand except the east coast of Northland, in depths of . Their length is up to , and ...
(''Genypterus blacodes''), pink ling or northern ling
Plants
* ''
Calluna'', a flowering plant in the heather family
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Water caltrop or ling nut
Religion
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Ling (Chinese religion)
Ling (, vi, linh) is the notion of sacred in Chinese traditional religions.
Overview
''Xian ling'' and ''shen''
It is the state or power of gods and divine beings ('' shen'') that is multiplied by their appearance in vision during trance o ...
, the notion of the sacred in Chinese religions
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Lingam or ling, a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva
Other uses
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Ling (surname), a surname of various origins
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County magistrate or , a government official in imperial China
See also
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-ling
A diminutive is a root word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment. A (abbreviated ) is a word-formati ...
, an English diminutive suffix
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Ling-Ling (disambiguation) Ling Ling, Ling-Ling, or Lingling may refer to:
__NOTOC__ Places
* Lingling, the former name of Yongzhou, a city in the Hunan province of China
** Lingling District, under the administration of Yongzhou
People
* Lingling (born 1997), member of the ...
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Gesar of Ling
The Epic of King Gesar ( Tibetan, Bhutanese: གླིང་གེ་སར །), also spelled Geser (especially in Mongolian contexts) or Kesar (), is a work of epic literature of Tibet and greater Central Asia. The epic originally develo ...
, mythical Tibetan culture-hero
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Linga (disambiguation)
A linga, or lingam, is a symbol of the Hindu deity Shiva.
Linga may also refer to:
People
* Praveen Linga (born 1979), Indian chemical engineer
Places
* Linga, Victoria, Australia
* Linga, Madhya Pradesh, India
* List of islands called Ling ...
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Linh (Vietnamese religion)
Vietnamese folk religion ( vi, tín ngưỡng dân gian Việt Nam, sometimes just called , Chữ Hán: ) is the ethnic religion of the Vietnamese people. About 86% of the population in Vietnam are associated with this religion.
Vietnamese f ...
, is the notion of the sacred in Vietnamese religions, and the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese character
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Linh, a Vietnamese surname
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