Kui may refer to:
People
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Kui people
The Kuy (, ) are an indigenous ethnic group of mainland Southeast Asia. The native lands of the Kuy range from the southern Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand east to the banks of the Mekong River in southern Laos and south to north central ...
, a Mon-Khmer ethnic minority
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Kui Lee
Kuiokalani Lee (July31, 1932December3, 1966) was an American singer-songwriter. Lee began his career in the mainland United States while performing as a dancer. Upon his return to Hawaii, he worked in clubs. At the Honey club, he met Don Ho ...
, a singer-songwriter
People with the surname Kui (奎)
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Kui Yuanyuan
Kui Yuanyuan (Simplified Chinese: 奎媛媛; born June 23, 1981) is a former artistic gymnast from China who competed in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games.
Gymnastics career
Kui won the floor exercise at the 1996 World Artistic Gymnastics Cha ...
, a Chinese gymnast
Places
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Kui, Hiroshima was a town located in Mitsugi District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,392 and a density of 86.73 persons per km2. The total area was 62.17 km2.
On March 22, 2005, Kui, along with the tow ...
, a Japanese town
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Kawau Island Airport, IATA code KUI, on
Kawau Island
Kawau Island is in the Hauraki Gulf, close to the north-eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the Māori word for the shag.At its closest point it lies off the coast of the Northland Peninsula, just south of Tā ...
Astronomy
*Kui, or
Legs
A leg is a weight-bearing and locomotive anatomical structure, usually having a columnar shape. During locomotion, legs function as "extensible struts". The combination of movements at all joints can be modeled as a single, linear element cap ...
, a Chinese constellation
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Eta Andromedae
Eta Andromedae, also named Kui, is a spectroscopic binary star system in the northern constellation of Andromeda. It consists of two G-type evolved stars orbiting each other with a period of 115.7 days and has an overall apparent ...
, a star with the proper name Kui
*KUI is used to designate
double star
In observational astronomy, a double star or visual double is a pair of stars that appear close to each other as viewed from Earth, especially with the aid of optical telescopes.
This occurs because the pair either forms a binary star (i.e. a ...
s discovered by
Gerard Kuiper
Gerard Peter Kuiper ( ; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, ; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch-American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. The Kuiper belt is named after him.
Kuiper is consi ...
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KUI 91AB
U Aquilae is a binary star system in the constellation Aquila, Located approximately away from Earth.
The primary star (component A) is a yellow supergiant with a radius of and a luminosity of . The secondary (component B) is a blu ...
, a variable star of Delta Cephei type
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KUI 93AB
QS Aquilae is a triple or quadruple star system consisting of an eclipsing binary in a 2.5 day orbit around which a third star orbits in 77 years. There is some indication that there is a fourth component with a period of roughly 18 year ...
, an eclipsing binary of Algol variable type
Other uses
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Kui (Chinese mythology)
''Kui'' ( zh, c=夔, p='' kuí'', w=''k'uei'') is a polysemous figure in ancient Chinese mythology. Classic texts use this name for the legendary musician Kui who invented music and dancing; for the one-legged mountain demon or rain-god Kui vari ...
夔, a one-legged mountain demon, also legendary inventor of music and dance
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Kui (dragonball)
''Dragon Ball'' is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The franchise features an ensemble cast of characters and takes place in the same fictional universe as Toriyama's other work, ''Dr. Slump''. While many of the cha ...
, a manga character
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Kui (music)
Kui is a Kipchak instrumental musical composition performed with national plucked, bow and wind instruments such as dombyra, qobyz, syrnai, mostly with the plucked dombyra of the Kazakhs and Komuz of the Kyrgyzs. In the 20th century, Kazakh ...
, comes from Kazakh language
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Kui (Māori mythology)
Kui was a chthonic demigoddess and the wife of Tuputupuwhenua in Māori mythology. They supposedly live underground and when a new house is built, a tuft of grass is offered to them.
Kui is also the name of the father of Vahi-vero and the gran ...
, a chthonic Māori demigod, also father of Vahi-vero in Tuamotu mythology
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Kui kuningas nutab
Terminaator () is an Estonian rock group formed in 1987 by Arno Veimer and Jaagup Kreem in Tallinn 10. High School (today known as Nõmme Gymnasium). Kreem was in the 7th grade then. The first public performance was in Tallinn 47. High School i ...
, a 1997 song by Terminaator
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Kui language (India)
Kui (also Kandha, Khondi, Khond, Khondo, Kanda, Kodu (Kōdu), Kodulu, Kuinga (Kūinga), Kuy) is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken by the Kandhas, eastern Indian state of Odisha. It is mostly spoken in Odisha, and written in the Odia sc ...
, a Dravidian language spoken by the Khonds
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Kui language (Indonesia)
Kui is a Timor–Alor–Pantar language spoken in several enclaves on Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Ind ...
, a Timor–Alor–Pantar language
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Kui the Horseclaw Kui may refer to:
People
*Kui people, a Mon-Khmer ethnic minority
*Kui Lee, a singer-songwriter
People with the surname Kui (奎)
*Kui Yuanyuan, a Chinese gymnast
Places
*Kui, Hiroshima, a Japanese town
* Kawau Island Airport, IATA code KUI, on ...
, a character in ''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind''
*KUI, acronym for
Kinetic user interface
Gesture recognition is an area of research and development in computer science and language technology concerned with the recognition and interpretation of human gestures. A subdiscipline of computer vision, it employs mathematical algorithms to ...
See also
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Kui language (disambiguation)
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