Ling Explained

Ling may refer to:

Fictional characters

• Ling, an ally of James Bond's from the film You Only Live Twice
• Ling, a fictional character from the Mulan series
• Ling, a playable character from the mobile game
• Ling Bouvier, a fictional character from The Simpsons
• Ling Woo, a fictional character from Ally McBeal
• Ling Xiaoyu, a fictional character from the Tekken series
• Ling Yao, a character from the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist and its 2009 anime adaptation Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Bàba, Māma, and Gwen Ling, characters from American Dad!

Fish

• Atlantic cod, formerly called ling when salted
• Blue ling (Molva dypterygia)
• Burbot (Lota lota) or freshwater ling
• Cobia (Rachycentron canadum)
• Common ling (Molva molva)
• Pink cusk-eel (Genypterus blacodes), pink ling or northern ling

Plants

• Calluna, a flowering plant in the heather family
• Water caltrop or ling nut

Religion

• Ling (Chinese religion), the notion of the sacred in Chinese religions
• Lingam or ling, a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva

Other uses

• Ling (surname), a surname of various origins
• County magistrate or, a government official in imperial China
• Lings Wood Nature Reserve, or Lings, Northampton, England

See also

• • -ling, an English diminutive suffix
• Ling-Ling (disambiguation)
• Gesar of Ling, mythical Tibetan culture-hero
• Linga (disambiguation)
• Linh (Vietnamese religion), is the notion of the sacred in Vietnamese religions, and the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese character Chinese: {{linktext|靈
• Linh, a Vietnamese surname