Kai

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Kai may refer to:

Contents 1 Real people 2 Characters 2.1 People 2.2 Animals 2.3 Deities 2.4 Titles 3 Places 4 Organizations 5 Music and singing 6 Foreign languages 7 Other

[edit] Real people

• Kai Budde, a famous player of the card game Magic: The Gathering
• Kai Krause, a pioneer in the field of computer applications
• Kai Ryssdal, radio journalist.
• Kai Winding, jazz trombonist
• Kai Rikardsen, Famous basketball player. Played for Norwegian national team
• Kai Hansen, heavy metal vocalist and guitarist for Helloween, Iron Saviour, and Gamma Ray
• Kai Kamada-Laws, played character Susi Fujiwara in a Australian childrens television series Ocean Star (2003)
• Kai Lee, a New York Production Designer/Art Director... Co-Founder of Worlds Away Productions Ltd.
• Kai, high priest to Pharaoh Khufu in ancient Egypt

[edit] Characters

[edit] People

• Sir Kay, a knight of the Round Table
• Bajoran Kai, the supreme religious figure of Bajor in the fictional Star Trek universe
• Kai (LEXX), a character in the science fiction television series LEXX
• Kai (Mortal Kombat), a Shaolin monk in the Mortal Kombat video game franchise
• Kai Hiwatari, a character in the anime Beyblade
• Kai Shiden, a character in the anime Gundam
• Kai (Akira), the fictional character from the hit anime movie, Akira
• Kai Ozu, a character in Mahou Sentai Magiranger
• Kai Chen, a character in Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy
• Kai, Takato Matsuki's cousin in Digimon Tamers

[edit] Animals

• Kai the Horseclaw, a giant flightless bird who serves as a faithful mount in the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

[edit] Deities

• Kai (Scandinavian god), a mythical Scandinavian god
• Kai (God), the god of the sun in the Lone Wolf series
• Kaiō, the name for the gods in the manga Dragon Ball Z

[edit] Titles

• Kai (Star Trek), the spirtual leader of the Bajoran faithful in the Star Trek universe

[edit] Places

• Ptolemaida, the current name for Kailar, a former Ottoman city in Northern Greece
• Kai, Yamanashi, a city in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
  • Kai province, an old province that corresponds to Yamanashi Prefecture today

[edit] Organizations

• Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI), a South Korean national aerospace company
• Kikokushijo Academy International School (KAI School) in Tokyo, Japan
• Communist Workers International or Kommunistische Arbeiter-Internationale in German

[edit] Music and singing

• Kai (album), a remix album by Japanese group Dir en grey
• Kai (band), an R&B group
• Kai (singing), a kind of throat singing

[edit] Foreign languages

• KAI (suffix), for kaizo, a Japanese technical designation suffix
• 海(Kai), a Japanese name. The kanji means Sea or Ocean.
• kai (conjunction), the "and" conjunction in Greek
• Kai (abbreviation), a symbol used in Greek and Coptic
• Kai or Kekai, Hawaiian word for ocean.
• KAI can stand for Communist Workers International in German

[edit] Other

• Kaisho, a style of calligraphy also known as kaishu or regular script
• Kayı boyu, or Kai Boyu, a Turkish tribe to which the ruling family of the Ottoman Empire belonged
• Kailaras, a town and a nagar panchayat in Morena district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh