Ng, ng, or NG may refer to: *

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

(黄伍吳), a surname of Chinese origin

Arts and entertainment

N-Gage (disambiguation) N-Gage may refer to: * N-Gage (device), a handheld gaming smartphone from Nokia, released in 2003 ** N-Gage QD, a hardware revision of the N-Gage, released in 2004 * N-Gage (service), the former N-Gage service, containing many games for some Symbia ...

, a handheld gaming system *

Naked Giants Naked Giants are an American rock music group founded in 2014 in Seattle, Washington. The band comprises vocalist and guitarist Grant Mullen, bassist and vocalist Gianni Aiello, and drummer Henry LaVallee. After releasing their lo-fi EP ''R.I.P. ...

, Seattle rock band * '' Spirit Hunter: NG'', a video game

Businesses and organizations

Lauda Air Lauda Air Luftfahrt GmbH, branded as Lauda Air, was an Austrian airline headquartered at Vienna International Airport in Schwechat. It was owned by Niki Lauda (1949–2019) during much of its existence, later becoming a charter airline subsidia ...

(airline code NG) *

National Geographic (disambiguation) *''National Geographic'' is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. National Geographic or NatGeo may also refer to: * National Geographic Society, an American non-profit scientific and educational institution * National Geographi ...

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. Nat ...

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

Newgrounds Newgrounds is an entertainment website and company founded by Tom Fulp in 1995. It hosts user-generated content such as games, films, audio, and artwork. Fulp produces in-house content at the headquarters and offices in Glenside, Pennsylvania. I ...

, an American entertainment and social media website and company *

Northrop Grumman Corporation Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. With 90,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military techn ...

, a major United States defense contractor *

Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft The ''Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft'' (Emergency Association of German Science) or NG was founded on 30 October 1920 on the initiative of leading members of the ''Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften'' (Prussian Academy of Sciences, ...

, a German scientific society

Language

Ndonga dialect Ndonga, also called Oshindonga, is a Bantu dialect spoken in Namibia and parts of Angola. It is a standardized dialect of the Ovambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Kwanyama, the other Ovambo dialect with a standard written form. Wi ...

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

Oshiwambo The Ovambo () language is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga. The native name for the language is ''Oshiwambo'' (also written ''Oshiv ...

Ng (digraph) This is a list of Digraph (orthography), digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ''). Letters with diacritics are arranged in alp ...

, a pair of letters representing various sounds *

Ng (Arabic letter) Turkic ng or (Ng or Naf) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from kāf () with the addition of three dots above the letter. It is used in Arabic as used in Morocco for (or by ), but is used to represent a velar when wri ...

* Ng (Filipino letter) *

Eng (letter) Eng or engma ( capital: Ŋ, 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 Alphabet. In Washo, lower-ca ...

(Ŋ ŋ) * Cyrillic characters: **

En with descender (Cyrillic) En with descender (Ң ң; italics: ) 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 commonly represents the velar nasal , like the pronunciation o ...

(Ң ң) **

En with hook See also

*Ң ң : En with descender (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter En with descender *Ӊ ӊ : En with tail, Cyrillic letter En with tail *Ҥ ҥ : En-ghe, Cyrillic ligature En Ge *Ԩ ԩ : En with left hook, Cyrillic letter En with left hook *Ŋ ŋ ...

(Ӈ ӈ) ** En-ghe (Cyrillic) (Ҥ ҥ) **

En with middle hook En with middle hook (Ԣ ԣ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a hook to the middle of the right leg. En with middle hook was formerly used in the alphabet of ...

(Ԣ ԣ) *

Voiced velar nasal The voiced velar nasal, also known as agma, from the Greek word for '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 ''Englis ...

, /ŋ/ in

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

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 emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversat ...

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

Places

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

(ISO country code NG) **

.ng .ng is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in We ...

the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Nigeria *

Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languagesNG postcode area Ng, ng, or NG may refer to: * Ng (name) (黄伍吳), a surname of Chinese origin Arts and entertainment * N-Gage (disambiguation), a handheld gaming system * Naked Giants, Seattle rock band * '' Spirit Hunter: NG'', a video game Businesses a ...

, that covers most of Nottinghamshire, England

Science and technology

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

Nanogram To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following lists describe various mass levels between 10−59 kg and 1052 kg. The least massive thing listed here is a graviton, and the most massive thing is the observable universe. ...

(ng) *

Natural gas Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...

* 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 oesophagus, and down into the stomach. Orogastric intubation is a similar process involving the inserti ...

) *

Noble gas The noble gases (historically also the inert gases; sometimes referred to as aerogens) make up a class of chemical elements with similar properties; under standard conditions, they are all odorless, colorless, monatomic gases with very low chemi ...

(placeholder symbol Ng)

Other uses

* 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 * A

blooper A blooper is a short clip from a film 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 news report, usually in terms o ...

(a no good cut) in East Asian variants of English * A no good (forbidden) word in the "NG word game" * The

Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NGK) is a Reformed Christian denomination in South Africa. It also has a presence in neighbouring countries, such as Namibia, Eswatini, and parts of Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

(Low-German Reformed Church), a church in South Africa