pang

1 a sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience" [syn: stab, twinge]

2 a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience" [syn: sting]

3 a sharp spasm of pain

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æŋ

Noun

1. A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

Related terms

• birth pangs

Verb

1. To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.

Estonian

Noun

pang

1. bucket

Synonyms

• ämber

Mandarin

Pinyin

1. 乓: pong, used with ping for ping pong

Pinyin syllable

pang

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, pāng, páng, pǎng, or pàng.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Swedish

Interjection

1. bang (verbal percussive sound)

Pang may refer to:

People

includes name origin of the alternate Romanization of Peng; plus people with the name,

Fictional characters

• Pang Wanchun (庞万春), character in the epic Chinese tale, the "Water Margin"

Places

• Amphoe Pang Mapha, district in northern Thailand
• Amphoe Pang Sila Thong, district in northern Thailand
• Fo Pang (Chinese: 火棚), place located in a valley of Kowloon, Hong Kong
• Pang, Nunavut, Canadian Inuit hamlet
• Siem Pang District, in north-east Cambodia

Other uses

• Chut-kai-pang, style of music
• Korena Pang, pseudonym used by Jeff Mangum
• pang cymbal, percussion instrument
• Pang uk (Chinese: 棚屋), shack house
• River Pang, located in southern England
• Another name for the videogame Buster Bros.

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