Ng, ng, or NG may refer to:

  • Ng (name) (吳 黄 伍), (吳 being the most common), a surname of Chinese origin<!--

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Arts and entertainment

  • N-Gage (device), 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, a British multinational electricity and gas utility company
  • National Guard (disambiguation)
  • Nederlandse Gidsen (Dutch Guides), one of the Scouting organisations that evolved into the national Scouting organisation of the Netherlands
  • Newgrounds, 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 <code>ng</code>), a dialect of Oshiwambo
  • Ng (digraph), a pair of letters representing various sounds
  • Ng (Arabic letter)
  • Ng (Filipino letter)
  • Eng (letter) (Ŋ ŋ)
  • Cyrillic characters:
  • En with descender (Cyrillic) (Ң ң)
  • En with hook (Ӈ ӈ)
  • En-ghe (Cyrillic) (Ҥ ҥ)
  • En with middle hook (Ԣ ԣ)
  • Voiced velar nasal, /ŋ/ in International Phonetic Alphabet
  • Emoji 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 (ISO country code NG)
  • .ng the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Nigeria
  • Niger (FIPS country code NG)
  • NG postcode area, that covers most of Nottinghamshire, England

Science and technology

  • Nitroglycerin
  • Nanogram (ng)
  • Natural gas
  • Nasogastric (NG), pertaining both to the nose and to the stomach (e.g. see nasogastric intubation)
  • Noble gas (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 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

See also

  • Next Generation (disambiguation)
  • No Good (disambiguation)