Ching may refer to:
People
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Ching (given name) Ching is a unisex given name of Chinese origin which may refer to:
* Ching He Huang (born 1978), British-Taiwanese food writer and TV chef often referred to simply as Ching
* Ching Ho Cheng (1946-1989), Cuban-born American artist
* Ho Ching (born ...
, a unisex name
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Ching (surname)
Ching is a Chinese and English surname.
Origins
As a Chinese surname, Chow may be a romanisation of the pronunciations in different varieties of Chinese of the following surnames, listed based on their Pinyin romanisation (which reflects the Mand ...
, a romanization of some Chinese surnames such as Cheng and Zhuang
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Ching Hammill (1902–1925), American football player
* Ivan
Ching Johnson
Ivan Wilfred "Ching" Johnson (December 7, 1897 – June 17, 1979) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the New York Rangers and New York Americans in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1926 and 1938. He was an or ...
(1898–1979), Canadian National Hockey League player
* Ching, nickname of
Willis Augustus Lee (1888–1945), World War II US Navy vice admiral
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Ching Lau Lauro
Ching Lau Lauro and Professor Ching were the stage names of a juggler and magician (1806?–1840; flourished 1827–1839) who performed outdoors and in theatres in London and the provinces. His real name is unknown; he was possibly Cornish and ...
, stage name of an English magician popularly known as Ching (flourished 1827–1840), true identity unknown
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Ching Shih
Zheng Yi Sao (1775–1844; born Shi Yang, a.k.a. Shi Xianggu), also known as Ching Shih, was a Chinese pirate leader who was active in the South China Sea from 1801 to 1810.
Born as Shi Yang in 1775 to humble origins, she married a pirate nam ...
(1775–1844), also known as Madame Ching, a notorious and highly successful Chinese pirate
Other uses
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Ching (instrument)
Ching (also spelled Chheng, km, ឈិង or Chhing, th, ฉิ่ง) are finger cymbals played in Cambodian and Thai theater and dance ensembles.
Construction and use
Joined by a cord that runs through the center, ching are bowl-shaped, about ...
, a Thai and Cambodian musical instrument
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"Ching" (song), a single from Swami's album ''Equalize'' (2007)
* Ching, a fictional 12-year-old Chinese swordswoman in the
TV show ''Pucca''
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Ching chong
"Ching chong" and "ching chang chong" are ethnic slurs and racial pejorative terms sometimes used in English to mock the Chinese language, people of Chinese ancestry, or other people of East Asian descent perceived to be Chinese. The term is a ...
, and ching chang chong, pejorative terms that mock or play on the Chinese language or Asian people perceived to be Chinese or people of Chinese appearance
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
of Imperial China, romanized as "Ch'ing" in Wade–Giles
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River Ching, a tributary of the River Lea in north east London
See also
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Chingy
Howard Earl Bailey Jr. (born March 9, 1980), known professionally as Chingy, is an American rapper. Chingy grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and began rapping in his late teens. He toured as an opening act with Nelly in the summer of 2002 and the ...
, American hip hop artist
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Chingford
Chingford is a town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The town is approximately north-east of Charing Cross, with Waltham Abbey to the north, Woodford Green and Buckhurst Hill to the east, Walthamstow t ...
, a borough of London
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Jing (disambiguation) (Ching is the
Wade–Giles
Wade–Giles () is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade, during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert A. Giles's '' Chinese–English Dictionary'' o ...
equivalent of Jing)
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Qing (disambiguation) (Ch'ing is the
Wade–Giles
Wade–Giles () is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade, during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert A. Giles's '' Chinese–English Dictionary'' o ...
equivalent of Qing)
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Chink
''Chink'' is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese descent. The word is also sometimes indiscriminately used against people of East Asian, North Asian and Southeast Asian appearance. The use of the term des ...
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I Ching (disambiguation)
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