Ming 's a common personal name among Chinese people, Vietnamese people, and Korean people. In pinyin, it's written Míng, in romanized Vietnamese, it's written as Minh, and in Korean it's pronounced Myeong. Directly translated as "enlightenment", the Chinese character's a conjunction of the words sun and moon, representing light, and therefore enlightenment. It may also mean: People Ming Tsai, a celebrity chef Ming-Na (born 1963), an American actress Yan Pei Ming (born 1960), a Chinese bo… (More on Ming)