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'' *

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'' *

Ling Woo 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'' franchise * Ling, a playable character from the mobile game '' Mobile Legends: Bang Bang'' * Lin ...

, a fictional character from ''Ally McBeal'' *

Ling Xiaoyu Ling Xiaoyu (; ja, リン・シャオユウ, translit=Rin Shaoyū) is a fictional character from the ''Tekken'' franchise by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Following her debut in ''Tekken 3'' (1997), she has appeared in every subsequent game in th ...

, 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'' * Bàba, Māma, and Gwen Ling, characters from ''American Dad!''

Fish

Atlantic cod The Atlantic cod (''Gadus morhua'') is a benthopelagic fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling.Blue ling (''Molva dypterygia'') *

Burbot The burbot (''Lota lota'') is the only gadiform (cod-like) freshwater fish Freshwater fish are those that spend some or all of their lives in fresh water, such as rivers and lakes, with a salinity of less than 1.05%. These environments di ...

(''Lota lota'') or freshwater ling *

Cobia The cobia (''Rachycentron canadum'') is a species of carangiform marine fish, the only extant representative of the genus ''Rachycentron'' and the family Rachycentridae. Other common names include black kingfish, black salmon, ling, lemonfis ...

(''Rachycentron canadum'') *

Common ling The common ling (''Molva molva''), also known as the white ling or simply the ling, is a large member of the family Lotidae, a group of cod-like fishes. It resembles the related rocklings, but it is much larger and has a single barbel. This spe ...

(''Molva molva'') *

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

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Calluna ''Calluna vulgaris'', common heather, ling, or simply heather, is the sole species in the genus ''Calluna'' in the flowering plant family Ericaceae. It is a low-growing evergreen shrub growing to tall, or rarely to and taller, and is found wide ...

'', a flowering plant in the heather family *

Water caltrop The water caltrop is any of three extant species of the genus ''Trapa'': ''Trapa natans'', ''Trapa bicornis'' and the endangered ''Trapa rossica''. It is also known as buffalo nut, bat nut, devil pod, ling gok (Chinese: 菱角), ling nut, lin kok ...

or ling nut

Religion

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 *

Lingam A lingam ( sa, लिङ्ग , lit. "sign, symbol or mark"), sometimes referred to as linga or Shiva linga, is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu god Shiva in Shaivism. It is typically the primary ''murti'' or devotional im ...

or ling, a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva

Other uses

Ling (surname) Ling is a surname which can be of either Chinese, English, or Nordic origin. Chinese "Ling" is the Roman alphabet spelling of multiple Chinese surnames. Líng () According to traditional stories, the surname pronounced Líng () in Mandarin origina ...

, a surname of various origins *

County magistrate County magistrate ( or ) sometimes called local magistrate, in imperial China was the official in charge of the ''xian'', or county, the lowest level of central government. The magistrate was the official who had face-to-face relations with the ...

or , a government official in imperial China

Fictional characters

Fish

Plants

Religion

Other uses

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