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Ng is a Cantonese and Hakka transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 (Pinyin: Wú) and 伍 (Pinyin: Wǔ), and Hokkien (Taiwanese) and Teochew transliteration of the Chinese surname 黃/黄 (Pinyin: Huáng). It is pronounced [ŋ̩], and means "five." It is sometimes romanized as Ang, Eng, Ing and Ong in the United States and Ung in Australia. It is sometimes romanized as Woo or Wu even by people of Cantonese origin, such as John Woo.

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