Pai

Pai or PAI may refer to:

People

• Pai (surname), Indian surname from coastal Karnataka, plus people with the name
• Pai (Chinese surname), includes Chinese name origin, plus people with the name

Fictional characters

• Pai (Manga character), "3x3 Eyes", the anime character
• Pie (Tokyo Mew Mew), an antagonist in the manga and anime series Tokyo Mew Mew

Places

• Pai, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
• Pai, Thailand, a small town in Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand
  • Amphoe Pai, the district around the town
  • Pai River
  • Pai Airport

Games

• Gwat Pai, Chinese dominoes set
• Zi pai, Chinese card game
• Pai Gow, Chinese gambling game
  • Pai gow poker, Americanized version

Other uses

• Pai languages (Paipai, Walapai, Havasupai)
• Pai dialect of the Northern Sotho language

Acronyms

• PAI Partners, a French private equity firm
• Parachute Association of Ireland, a representative/regulatory body for skydivers in Ireland
• Parti Africain de l’Indépendance (African Independence Party), a former political party in Bourkina Faso
• PartnerAid International, a German-based Christian humanitarian organization
• Pathogenicity island, a distinct class of genomic island which is acquired by horizontal transfer
• Periodic annual increment
• Personality Assessment Inventory, a test given by psychologists
• Photoacoustic Imaging
• Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), a protein that inhibits fibrinolysis (breakdown of blood clots)
• Plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 (PAI-2), another protein that inhibits fibrinolysis
• Poalei Agudat Yisrael, an Israeli political party
• Polizia dell'Africa Italiana (Italian Police of Africa, police force in the Italian colonies
• Polyamide-imide, a thermoplastic polymer
• Polyatomic Ion
• Population Action International
• Persatuan Arab Indonesia, an association of Arab Indonesians

See also

• Bae (surname)