Mai

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Mai can refer to:

Contents 1 Name 2 History 3 Fiction 4 Music 5 Other uses 6 Acronym

[edit] Name

• Mai, old French for Maia, the Italic goddess of spring, the daughter of Faunus, and wife of Vulcan (mythology)
  • Mak, the transliteration of the same name pronounced in Cantonese
• Omai, aka Mai, the first person from the Pacific Islands to visit Europe
• Mai (舞,　舞衣,　麻衣, 真衣) is a Japanese feminine given name.

[edit] History

• Mai, the title of the Duguwa kings of Chad

[edit] Fiction

• Taniyama Mai, a character in the anime and manga Ghost Hunt
• Mai the Psychic Girl, a 1985 manga
• List of Kanon characters#Mai Kawasumi, a character in the Kanon visual novel, anime, and manga.
• Mai Mishō, co-protagonist of Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star
• Mai Shiranui, a character in The King of Fighters series of video games.
• Mai Tokiha, the title character in the anime and manga My-HiME (originally Mai-HiME), and a supporting character in My-Otome
• Mai Valentine (Mai Kujaku in the Japanese version), a character from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
• Mai (Avatar: The Last Airbender), a supporting character from the television show Avatar: The Last Airbender
• List of Earthlings in Dragon Ball#Mai, one of Pilaf's henchmen from Dragon Ball
• Mai Tsubasa (aka Change Phoenix), a character in Dengeki Sentai Changeman.
• Mai, one of the main characters from the anime & eroge game List of Popotan characters

[edit] Music

• Mai (singer) (b. 1984), formerly known as Ruppina, the stage name of J-Pop singer Mai Kudō
• Mai (song), a song by Josh Groban from the album Awake Live
• Mai Charoenpura, a Thai pop singer from Bangkok
• Mai Kuraki (b. 1982), a popular J-pop singer
• Mai Hoshimura (b. 1981), a J-pop singer under the Sony Music Japan label
• Mai Kadowaki, a Japanese seiyū
• Mai Yamane, (b. 1958), a Japanese English-language blues singer

[edit] Other uses

• May, the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, in French, Romanian, German, Norwegian and Welsh
• Umai (also transliterated Ymai and Mai), a mother goddess in Siberian mythology, mostly among Turkic Siberians
• Mai, Thailand

[edit] Acronym

• Machine augmented intelligence, the use of technology to amplify and empower human thought and consciousness
• Market for Alternative Investment, a stock market for SMEs in Thailand
• Marine Accident Investigation, the Investigation of Ship relating accidents
• Mean annual increment, a measure of the average growth per year a tree or stand of trees has exhibited at a specified age
• Member of the Appraisal Institute, a degree requiring ascending levels of tests
• Ministry of Interior (Portugal), Ministério da Administração Interna, the Portuguese Ministry of Interior.
• Motorsports Association of India, the FIA arm of Indian Motorsports
• Moscow Aviation Institute, an engineering an aviation academy in Russia
• Multilateral Agreement on Investment, a treaty negotiated between members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) between 1995 and 1998
• Myanmar Airways International, an airline from Myanmar (Burma)
• Mycobacterium avium intracellulare, a mycobacterial infection which typically occurs in immunosuppressed patients, such as those in the late stages of AIDS

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