Dai

Dai can mean:

• Dai people, one of the 56 recognized ethnic minorities of China
• Da'i (Arabic: "missionary") refers to a person who engages in Dawah, the act of inviting people to Islam
• State of Dai was a Xianbei state during the Sixteen Kingdoms era of history of China
• Dai (Yindu), ethnic tribe of Chin, Myanmar
• Dai (大) is also a Sino-Japanese morpheme for "big," appearing in a number of Japanese words and names (and even a few pseudo-Japanese words, such as Daikatana)
• Dai is the greeting and farewell used by the wizards in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.
• Dai County, in Shanxi, China.

Acronyms

• The DAI Personal Computer, an early (1980) home computer from Belgium.
• the New York Stock Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange stock symbol for automaker Daimler AG (maker of Mercedes-Benz).
• Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference refers to changes in the Earth's climate system, resulting from human activity, which are considered to be dangerous to human communities and to ecosystems.
• Darjeeling Airport IATA code of Darjeeling airport in India
• De Administrando Imperio, a Byzantine historical compilation written by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos
• German Archaeological Institute, an archaeological institute operated by the German ministry of foreign affairs
• the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut (German-American Institute)
• Diffuse axonal injury, a type of traumatic brain injury
• Digital Author Identification, Dutch Author Identification system to assign a unique number to all authors in the Dutch research system
• Direct Audio Input, a port used in hearing aids and hearing instruments
• Distributed artificial intelligence, a subfield of artificial intelligence
• Do As Infinity, a Japanese band
• Doctor's Associates, Inc., a U.S.-based restaurant company which owns the Subway restaurant name.
• Dynamic ARP Inspection, an ARP Spoofing or ARP Poison/Routing (APR) protection method developed by Cisco.

Names

• Dai is the Welsh diminutive form of David or its Welsh equivalent Dafydd
• Dai (戴) is a Chinese surname.
• Dai Davies (footballer)
• Dai Davies (politician)
• Dai Matsumoto, a Japanese voice actor
• Dai Nagao, Japanese composer, musician and producer
• Dai Satō, a Japanese screenwriter and musician
• Dai Ward, footballer

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