Dong

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Dong may refer to:

In Asian languages:

• Vietnamese đồng (₫), the currency unit of Vietnam
• Dong people (侗族), an ethnic minority group in China
• Dong Lake, a lake in the Hunan Province of China
• Dong quai, a medicinal herb
• Dong (동 or 洞), a section of a city in South Korea, smaller than a gu (ward) and approximately the size of five city blocks. Used in place names quite often; Seohyeon-dong is an example.

People:

• Long Duk Dong or "the Donger," a character in the 1984 American movie Sixteen Candles.
• Dong Fangzhuo (董方卓), a Chinese football player.
• Dong (surname), a transliteration of Chinese family names 董,東 (in Mandarin pinyin) and 黨 (in Cantonese)
• Dong, an element of Korean names

Dong may also mean:

• Penis or dildo (slang)
  • Long Dong Silver, a pornographic actor
• An onomatopoeic term to refer to the (especially low) sound of a bell
• A language game where words are spelled out and consonants have the syllable -ong added on the end.
• A creature in the nonsense poem of Edward Lear, The Dong with a Luminous Nose
• A home run in the sport of baseball
• Dong Open Air, a heavy metal festival in Germany, named after the Dong hill
• A stereotypical Asian word used in impersionations

DONG can be an abbreviation for:

• DONG Energy, Denmark's energy company
  • DONG Cup, a former name of the Danish Cup trophy, sponsored by the oil company from 2000 to 2004

[edit] See also

• List of people by name: Dong
• Taepodong, Rodong-1. Types of North Korean Missles