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Dingbat

A dingbat, also called a printer's ornament, is a decorative typographic symbol such as a star or pointing hand; digital symbol fonts like Wingdings are dingbat fonts.

Dingdang Kuaiyao (Dingdang Drug Delivery)

Dingdang Kuaiyao (叮当快药), now Dingdang Health Technology Group, is a Beijing digital pharmacy founded in 2014 that delivers medicines from its own pharmacies within 28 minutes, 24/7.

Dingdong Dantes

Dingdong Dantes (Jose Sixto Raphael Gonzalez Dantes III, born 1980) is a Filipino actor, host, and producer, GMA Network's Kapuso Primetime King, star of Marimar and Rewind, husband of Marian Rivera, and a Philippine Navy reservist.

Dingdong Xiaoqu

Dingdong Xiaoqu (叮咚小区) was a Shanghai community O2O app launched in March 2014 by Liang Changlin, offering delivery, forums, and local services to apartment compounds.

Dinghy

A dinghy, from the Hindi dingi, is a small open boat propelled by oars, motor, or sails, used for pleasure, racing, or ferrying people between ship and shore.

Dinginin power station

Dinginin power station is a two-unit, supercritical coal-fired power plant in Mariveles, Bataan, on Manila Bay; at about 1,336 MW it is the largest coal plant in the Philippines.

Dingiswayo

Dingiswayo, born Godongwana around 1770, was a paramount chief of the Mthethwa who united the coastal clans, pioneered the age-regiment system, and was the young Shaka's patron.

Dingji Coal Mine

Dingji Coal Mine (丁集煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Fengtai County, Huainan, Anhui, China, begun in 2004 and producing up to 6 million tonnes of coal per year.

Dingjing Decoction

定经汤 (Dingjing decoction), a Qing-dynasty TCM formula from Fu Qingzhu's Obstetrics and Gynecology for irregular menstruation from liver stagnation with kidney deficiency; eight herbs, decoction, now used for PCOS and intermenstrual bleeding.

Dingle

Dingle (Irish: An Daingean) is a port town in County Kerry, Ireland, the most westerly town in the country and the center of the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht.

Dingle Sinus

Dingle Sinus is an 80 km wide IAU-named bay (sinus) on Titan, a flooded inlet connecting Punga Mare with Kraken Mare at 81.36N 336.44W, named after Dingle Bay in Ireland and crossed by Cassini's T124 bistatic radar track.

Dingley Act

The Dingley Act, formally the Tariff Act of 1897, was a US tariff law signed in 1897 that raised duties on most imports, peaking at 52.1 percent in 1899.

Dingnan Jiedushi

Dingnan Jiedushi (定难军节度使) was a hereditary military governorship headquartered at Xiazhou, governing the five prefectures of Yin, Xia, Sui, You, and Jing from the late Tang into the early Song.

Dingo

The dingo (Warrigal, Australian Native Dog) is a free-ranging canid found mainly in Australia, descended from domestic dogs that arrived from Southeast Asia several thousand years ago. It is Australia's largest mammalian carnivore.

Dingo ate my baby

Catchphrase from the 1980 death of Azaria Chamberlain, taken by a dingo at Uluru; her mother Lindy was wrongly convicted of murder in 1982 and exonerated by 2012.

Dingo Fence

Dingo Fence (Dog Fence, Wild Dog Barrier Fence): 5,614 km pest-exclusion fence from southeast Queensland to Fowlers Bay, South Australia, keeping dingoes out of sheep country; proposed 1948, completed late 1950s, with documented ecological effects.

Dingo Pictures

Dingo Pictures: German animation studio (founded 1992 as Media Concept by Ludwig Ickert and Roswitha Haas) making low-budget Disney mockbusters until 2005; source of the Yee meme. Distinct from the Melbourne production company of the same name.

Dingtai Drug Research

Dingtai Drug Research (鼎泰药研), formally Jiangsu Dingtai Drug Research (Group) Co., Ltd., is a Chinese preclinical contract research organization founded in Nanjing in 2008, ranked first in China's cardiometabolic non-clinical CRO market.

DingTalk

DingTalk (钉钉) is Alibaba Group's enterprise communication and collaboration platform, launched in January 2015, combining messaging, documents, meetings, and AI features, with 700 million users and over 26 million organizations.

Dingxi

Dingxi Shi (定西市, Dingxi City), called Longzhong, is a prefecture-level city in central Gansu, China, with Anding District and six counties. Known for the Majiayao culture, potato and medicinal herb farming, and a 2025 GDP of 793.9 billion yuan.

Dingxu

Dingxu, also known as Lan'an Dingxu, was a Chan Buddhist monk recorded as a dharma heir of Dahui Zonggao in the Yangqi line of the Linji school.

Dingzhou power station

Dingzhou power station (定州电厂), also known as the Guohua Dingzhou power plant, is a coal-fired power station in Kaiyuan Town, Dingzhou, Hebei, China, with four units totaling 2,520 MW.

Dinh Bo Linh

Dinh Bo Linh (Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, 924–979) was the Vietnamese emperor who reunified the country after the Anarchy of the Twelve Warlords, founding the Dinh dynasty.

Dinh Bo Linh's pacification of the Twelve Warlords

Dinh Bo Linh's pacification of the Twelve Warlords (Đinh Bộ Lĩnh dẹp 12 sứ quân) was the 967 campaign reunifying Vietnam, leading to the Dinh dynasty in 968.

Dinh Bo Linh's unification and proclamation as Dinh Tien Hoang

In 968, after defeating the twelve warlords who had divided northern Vietnam, Dinh Bo Linh proclaimed himself emperor as Dinh Tien Hoang, founding the state of Dai Co Viet.

Đinh dynasty

The Đinh dynasty (Nhà Đinh, 968–980), founded by Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, was the first centralized monarchical dynasty of independent Vietnam, ruling the state of Đại Cồ Việt.

Dinh dynasty administrative and penal reforms

The Dinh dynasty administrative and penal reforms were the measures by which Dinh Tien Hoang organized the state of Dai Co Viet after reunifying Vietnam in 968.

Dinh Khong

Dinh Khong (Định Không, 730–808) was a Vietnamese Zen monk of the Vinitaruci lineage who founded Quynh Lam temple and, by tradition, foretold the Ly dynasty.

Dinh Liet

Dinh Liet (Đinh Liệt, died 1471) was a founding merit official of the Early Le dynasty, a nephew of Le Loi who joined the Lam Son uprising against Ming rule.

Dinh Q. Lê

Dinh Q. Lê (1968–April 2024) was a Vietnamese American multimedia artist known for photo weavings, photographic prints cut into strips and interlaced by hand, addressing the Vietnam War, memory, and trauma.