Ailing (Chinese name)

This article is about the given name. For other uses, see Ailing (disambiguation).

Ailing, Ai-ling, or, similar; is a female Chinese given name. It may be Anglicized as Irene, Eileen, or similar.

Gender	Feminine
Language(s)	Chinese
Origin
Region of origin	East Asia, Southeast Asia
Other names
Alternative spelling	Ailing, Ai-ling, Ai-Ling, Ai Ling, Oiling, Oi-ling, Oi-Ling, Oi Ling, Aileng, Ai-leng, Ai-Leng, Ai Leng
Short form(s)	Ai
Pet form(s)	Ling-ling
Anglicisation(s)	Aileen, Eileen, Irene

People with Chinese names variously romanized as "Ailing" or similar include:

愛玲 / 爱玲

Ailing
Traditional Chinese	愛玲
Simplified Chinese	爱玲
Literal meaning	Lovely
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Ailing Wade–Giles Ai-Ling Yue: Cantonese Hong Kong Romanisation Oi Ling

simplified Chinese: 爱玲; traditional Chinese: 愛玲:

People

• Irene Ang (♀; 洪愛玲) beauty pageant contestant from Singapore at the Miss Chinese International Pageant 1993
• Eileen Chang (♀; 張愛玲; 1920–1995; as Zhang Ailing and Chang Ai-ling) Chinese-American author
• Eleanor Goodman (♀; 顾爱玲; as Gu Ailing; born 1975) U.S. translator of Chinese works
• Liu Ailing (♀; 刘爱玲; born 1967) Chinese soccer player
• Ong Ai Leng (♀; 王爱玲; born 1978; Wang Ailing) Malaysian-Chinese actress
• Eileen Tung (♀; 童愛玲; born 1972), a Taiwanese actress and contestant on Hong Kong TV show Beautiful Cooking
• Zhang Ailing (badminton) (♀; 张爱玲; born 1957) Chinese badminton player

Characters

• Mak Oi Ling (♀; 麥愛玲), a fictional character from Hongkong/Shanghai Cantonese/Mandarin TV show Growing Through Life

愛凌 / 爱凌

simplified Chinese: 爱凌; traditional Chinese: 愛凌; lit. 'Lovely':

• Gu Ailing (♀; 谷爱凌; born 2003 as Eileen Gu) American-Chinese freestyle skier

藹齡 / 蔼龄

simplified Chinese: 蔼龄; traditional Chinese: 藹齡; lit. 'Kindly':

• Nancy Soong Ai-ling (♀; 宋藹齡; 1888–1973; also Ellen Soong) Taiwanese-Chinese businesswoman

See also

• simplified Chinese: 灵爱; traditional Chinese: 靈愛; pinyin: Lingai; Wade–Giles: Ling-Ai; lit. 'Spiritual Love'
  • Gladys Li Ling-Ai (1908–2003; Chinese: 李靈愛) Chinese-American filmmaker
• Ai (disambiguation)
• Ail (disambiguation)
• Ing (disambiguation)
• Ling (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Ailing
• All pages with titles containing Ailing
• All pages with titles containing Ai-Ling
• All pages with titles containing Ail-Ing
• Eileen (disambiguation), sometimes used as an anglicization of the Chinese Ailing
• Irene (disambiguation), sometimes used as an anglicisation of the Chinese Ailing