Xia

Xia (Hsia in Wade–Giles) may refer to:

Chinese history

• Xia dynasty (夏) (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC)
• Xia (Sixteen Kingdoms) (夏) (407–431), a Xiongnu state
• Xia (夏) (617–621), a state founded by Dou Jiande near the end of the Sui dynasty
• Western Xia (夏) (1038–1227), a Tangut empire
• Eastern Xia (夏) (1215–1233), a Jurchen kingdom

Other uses

• Huaxia or Xia, an ancient ethnic group later known as the Han Chinese
• Xia (surname), a Chinese surname
• Xia (philosophy), a Chinese philosophy similar (but not identical) to the chivalrous code of European knights
• Xia County, Shanxi, China
• Xiafs, a file system developed for the Linux operating system together with the Ext2 file system
• Xia class submarine, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine
• XIA, the ICAO Code for Irving Oil, Canada
• XIA (Junsu), a Korean pop artist also known as Xiah and Junsu
• Xia, the former stage name of Korean pop artist Jang Jin Young, formerly of RaNiA
• Xia, a place in the fictional Bionicle universe
• Xia, a hero or knight-errant in Chinese fiction, see wuxia

See also

• Sia (disambiguation)