Ping may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book '' The Story about Ping'', first published in 1933 * Ping, a minor character in ''Seinfeld'', an NBC sitcom * Pingg, a character from ''

Pingu ''Pingu'' is a stop motion animated children's television series originally produced in Switzerland. It was co-created by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann. It centres on the titular anthropomorphic emperor penguin and his family, who live i ...

'' * Ping, the alias of Hua Mulan in the animated film ''

Mulan Hua Mulan () is a legendary Chinese folk heroine from the Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century Common Era, CE) of Chinese history. Scholar, Scholars generally consider Mulan to be a fictional character. Hua Mulan is depicte ...

'' * '' Ping the Elastic Man'', a comic strip character introduced in ''The Beano'' in 1938 * Professor Ping, a character in the film '' Barbarella'' * Ping, a character in Carole Wilkinson's novel '' Dragonkeeper'' *

Po (Kung Fu Panda) Master Ping Xiao Po (born Li Lotus) is the title character and protagonist of the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise, primarily voiced by Jack Black and Mick Wingert. He is an anthropomorphic giant panda who is improbably chosen as the champion of ...

or Ping Xiao Po, the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda franchise ** Mr. Ping, Po's adopted father

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett * ''Ping!'', a 2000 film featuring

Shirley Jones Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as ''Oklahoma! (film), Oklahoma!'' (1955), ''Carousel (fi ...

* Ping, an ability in the trading card game '' Magic: The Gathering''

People

* Ping (given name) *

Ping (surname) Ping is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized P'ing in Wade–Giles. Ping is listed 95th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most co ...

(平), a Chinese surname *

Bing (Chinese surname) Bing is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Ping in Wade–Giles. Bing is listed 214th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most ...

(邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles * Ping (nickname)

Places

Ping River The Ping River (, , ; , ) along with the Nan River, is one of the two main tributaries of the Chao Phraya River. It originates at Doi Thuai in the Daen Lao Range, in Chiang Dao district, Chiang Mai province. After passing Chiang Mai, it flows th ...

, Thailand *

Ping Island Ping Island () is a river island with a general perimeter of about and an area of in the middle north of Lingling District, Yongzhou, Hunan. As one of the main attractions in Yongzhou, it is located at the confluence of the east branch and wes ...

, Yongzhou, Hunan, China

Science and technology

Computing

Ping (blogging) In blogging, a ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent from the weblog to one or more ping servers, as specified by originating weblog), to notify ...

, used for blogs, RSS, and related web services *

Ping (networking utility) ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host (network), host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It is available in a wide range of operating systems including most embedded network admi ...

, a computer network monitoring tool *

Ping (video games) In computers, lag is delay ( latency) between the action of the user (input) and the reaction of the server supporting the task, which has to be sent back to the client. The player's ability to tolerate lag depends on the type of game being pla ...

, the network latency between computers used in online gaming *

Mention (blogging) A mention (also known as @replies or tagging) is a means by which a blog post references or links to a user's profile. This may be done as a matter of getting the attention of (or drawing attention to) another user of a social networking or bl ...

, a reference to a user profile, especially called a "ping" when this delivers a notification sound * Ping.fm, a defunct microblog social network *

iTunes Ping iTunes Ping, or simply Ping, was a software-based, music-oriented social networking and recommender system developed and operated by Apple Inc. It was announced and launched on September 1, 2010, as part of the tenth major release of iTunes. Th ...

, a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes *

Ping Identity Ping Identity Corporation is an American software company established in 2002 by Andre Durand and Bryan Field-Elliot. It is headquartered in Denver with development offices in Vancouver, Tel Aviv, Austin, Bristol, Grenoble, Boston and Edinburgh. ...

, an American software company

Other uses in science and technology

Ping (unit) A ''pyeong'' (abbreviationpy) is a Korean unit of area and floorspace, equal to a square '' kan'' or 36square Korean feet. The ''ping'' and ''tsubo'' are its equivalent Taiwanese and Japanese units, similarly based on a square '' bu'' ( ja:� ...

, the Chinese equivalent of pyeong (坪), a Korean unit of area * Ping, a pulse of sound in

active sonar Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on ...

Ping project The European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) is an international scientific network and interest group that aims to enhance bioinformatics services by bringing together bioinformatics expertises and capacities. On 2011 EMBnet has 37 nodes spread ...

, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) *

Pinging In spark-ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel mixture in the cylinder does not result from propagation of the flame front ignite ...

, a noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines

Other uses

Ping (golf) Ping, Inc. (stylized as PING) is an American sports equipment manufacturing company based in Phoenix, Arizona. It focuses on golf equipment, producing golf clubs and golf bags. The company was founded by Karsten Solheim, following a career as an ...

, a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment *

Bing (bread) ''Bing'' () is a wheat flour-based Chinese bread with a flattened or disk-like shape. These foods may resemble the flatbreads, pancakes, pies and unleavened dough foods of non-Chinese cuisines. Many of them are similar to the Indian roti, F ...

, also written as "ping", a type of Chinese flat bread * "The Ping", a phenomenon present in the

Fury and Hecla Strait Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow (from wide) Arctic seawater channel located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Geography Situated between Baffin Island to the north and the Melville Peninsula to the south, it connects Foxe Basin o ...

, Canada