Dong

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Dong may refer to:

Asian languages

• Vietnamese đồng (₫), the currency unit of Vietnam
• Dong people (侗族), an ethnic minority group in China
• Dong language
• 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
• A Sponge-model Nokia cellular phone
• Dong (film) (东), a documentary film by filmmaker Jia Zhangke

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 (name), Vietnamese for the season of winter

Dong may also mean:

• Penis or dildo (slang)
  • Long Dong Silver, a pornographic actor
• 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

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

• Taepodong and Rodong-1, types of North Korean missiles