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Ng

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //əŋ//
  • //ʌŋ//
  • //ɪŋ//
  • //ɛŋ//
  • /[ŋ̍]/

A surname from Chinese. A surname from Hokkien

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese. A surname from Hokkien

  2. 2

    A surname from Chinese. A surname from Cantonese

Etymology

From various Chinese surnames, including: * Hokkien 黃 /黄 (N̂g) * Cantonese 吳 /吴 (ng⁴) and 伍 (ng⁵) The Philippine pronunciation is influenced by Tagalog ng.

Forms

plural
Ngs
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).