Ng, ng, or NG may refer to: *

Ng (name) Ng (pronounced ; English approximation often or or ) is both a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 ( Mandarin ''Wú'') and 伍 (Mandarin ''Wǔ'') and also a common Hokkien transcription of the surname 黃/ 黄 (, Mandar ...

(吳黄伍), (吳 being the most common), a surname of Chinese origin

Arts and entertainment

N-Gage (device) The N-Gage is a mobile device combining features of a cellular phone and a Handheld game console, handheld game system developed by Nokia, released on 7 October 2003. Officially nicknamed the ''game deck'', the N-Gage's phone works on the GSM c ...

, a handheld gaming system * Naked Giants, Seattle rock band * '' Spirit Hunter: NG'', a video game

Businesses and organizations

* Lauda Air (airline code NG) * National Geographic (disambiguation) *

National Grid plc National Grid plc is a British multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in London, England. Its principal activities are in the United Kingdom, where it owns and operates electricity and natural gas transmission networks ...

, a British multinational electricity and gas utility company *

National Guard (disambiguation) National guard is the name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries. The original National Guard was formed during the French Revolution around a cadre of defectors from the French Guards. ...

* ''Nederlandse Gidsen'' (Dutch Guides), one of the Scouting organisations that evolved into the national Scouting organisation of the Netherlands *

Newgrounds Newgrounds is an American entertainment website founded by Tom Fulp in 1995 and owned by Newgrounds.com, Inc. The site hosts user-generated content such as games, films, audio, and artwork. Fulp produces in-house content at the headquarters and ...

, an American entertainment and social media website and company * Northrop Grumman Corporation, a major United States defense contractor * Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, a German scientific society * Network General, a defunct American networking company

Language

* Ndonga dialect (ISO 639 alpha-2 ng), a dialect of Oshiwambo *

Ng (digraph) This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. In the list, Letter (alphabet), letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetical order according to their base, e.g. is alphabetised with , not at the end of the alphabet, as it wou ...

, a pair of letters representing various sounds * Ng (Arabic letter) * Ng (Filipino letter) *

Eng (letter) Eng, agma, or engma (Letter case, capital: Ŋ, Letter case, lowercase: ŋ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a voiced velar nasal (as in English ''sii'') in the written form of some languages and in the International Phonetic A ...

(Ŋ ŋ) * Cyrillic characters: **

En with descender (Cyrillic) En with descender (Ң ң; italics: ''Ңң'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a descender to the right leg. It is used in several mostly Turkic languages to repre ...

(Ң ң) ** En with hook (Ӈ ӈ) **

En-ghe (Cyrillic) En-ge (Ҥ ҥ; italics: ''Ҥ ҥ'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script used only in non-Slavic languages. The shape of the letter originated as a Typographic ligature, ligature of the Cyrillic letters En (Cyrillic), en (Н н) and Ge ( ...

(Ҥ ҥ) ** En with middle hook (Ԣ ԣ) *

Voiced velar nasal The voiced velar nasal, also known as eng, engma, or agma (from Greek 'fragment'), is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is the sound of ''ng'' in English ''sing'' as well as ''n'' before velar consonants as in ''E ...

, /ŋ/ in

International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation ...

Emoji An emoji ( ; plural emoji or emojis; , ) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of modern emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from type ...

character (Unicode U+1F196) used in Japan for "no good" (originally referring to bloopers shown during or after Japanese live TV shows)

People

* N'golo Kante, sometimes known as NG by fans, French football player

Places

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

(ISO country code NG) ** .ng the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Nigeria *

Niger Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state Geography of Niger#Political geography, bordered by Libya to the Libya–Niger border, north-east, Chad to the Chad–Niger border, east ...

(FIPS country code NG) *

NG postcode area The NG postcode area, also known as the Nottingham postcode area, is a group of 29 postcode districts in the East Midlands of England, within seven post towns. These cover southern and central Nottinghamshire (including Nottingham, Mansfield, Su ...

, that covers most of Nottinghamshire, England

Science and technology

Nitroglycerin Nitroglycerin (NG) (alternative spelling nitroglycerine), also known as trinitroglycerol (TNG), nitro, glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), or 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane, is a dense, colorless or pale yellow, oily, explosive liquid most commonly produced by ...

Nanogram To help compare different ''Order of magnitude, orders of magnitude'', the following lists describe various ''mass'' levels between 10−67 kilogram, kg and 1052 kg. The least massive thing listed here is a graviton, and the most massive thi ...

(ng) *

Natural gas Natural gas (also fossil gas, methane gas, and gas) is a naturally occurring compound of gaseous hydrocarbons, primarily methane (95%), small amounts of higher alkanes, and traces of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and helium ...

* Nasogastric (NG), pertaining both to the nose and to the stomach (e.g. see

nasogastric intubation Nasogastric intubation is a medical process involving the insertion of a plastic tube (nasogastric tube or NG tube) through the nose, down the esophagus, and down into the stomach. Orogastric intubation is a similar process involving the insertio ...

) *

Noble gas The noble gases (historically the inert gases, sometimes referred to as aerogens) are the members of Group (periodic table), group 18 of the periodic table: helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), radon (Rn) and, in some ...

(placeholder symbol Ng) * Software (-package) suffixed with ''-ng'', (as ''next generation'') to distinguish between newer or expanded implementations (e.g. Util-linux-ng or Syslog-ng) * Angular, a leading web application framework

Other uses

* A

blooper A blooper, or gag reel, is short clip from a film, television program or video production, usually a deleted scene, containing a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew. It also refers to an error made during a live radio or TV broadcast or ...

(a no good cut) in East Asian variants of English * A no good (forbidden) word in the "NG word game" * The Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church), a church in South Africa