Pai or PAI may refer to:

People

Pai (surname) Pai is a surname from coastal Karnataka, Kerala and Goa in India. It is found among Hindus of the Goud Saraswat Brahmin community, especially of Madhwa Section following either Kashi Math or Gokarna Matha. The name is also in use among so ...

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

Fictional characters

* Pai (Manga character), a character from "3x3 Eyes" * Pie (Tokyo Mew Mew), a villain from the manga and anime series ''Tokyo Mew Mew''

Places

* Pai, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province * Pai, Thailand, a small town in Mae Hong Son Province ** Pai District, the district around the town ** Pai River ** Pai Airport * Pai, Tank, a union council in Pakistan

Games

* Gwat Pai, Chinese dominoes set *

Zi pai ''Zi pai'' (; also ''pao fu zi'' or ''pao hu zhi'' [] in different dialects) are Chinese playing cards that are popular mainly in the southern part of Mainland China, especially in Hunan and Sichuan. It is also known as . Description These cards ...

, 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 Northern Sotho, or as an endonym, is a Sotho-Tswana language spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa. It is sometimes referred to as or , its main dialect, through synecdoche. According to the South African National Census o ...

language * Pai (fish trap) * "Pai", a 2016 song by

Bad Gyal Alba Farelo i Solé (born 7 March 1997), known professionally as Bad Gyal, is a Spanish singer, songwriter, Disc jockey, DJ and model. Known for her distinctive overall use of Auto-Tune, Bad Gyal has developed a strong cult following ever since ...

Acronyms

PAI Partners PAI Partners is a French private equity firm based in Paris, France. It is one of the oldest firms in the sector, with its origins dating back to Paribas Affaires Industrielles, the historical principal investment activity of Paribas, which sta ...

, a French private equity firm * PAI (Personal Activity Intelligence), a fitness indicator developed by researcher Ulrik Wisløff * 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 World Relief Germany (formerly PartnerAid International, PAI, current official name: World Relief Deutschland e. V.) is a German-based non-denominational Christian humanitarian organization. The International Office is located in Berlin. The m ...

International, a German-based Christian humanitarian organization *

Pathogenicity island Pathogenicity islands (PAIs), as termed in 1990, are a distinct class of genomic islands acquired by microorganisms through horizontal gene transfer. Pathogenicity islands are found in both animal and plant pathogens. Additionally, PAIs are found ...

, a distinct class of genomic island which is acquired by horizontal transfer *

Periodic annual increment In forestry, periodic annual increment (PAI) is the change in the size of a tree between the beginning and ending of a growth period, divided by the number of years that was designated as the growing period. For sigmoid growth, the graph of PAI inc ...

Persatuan Arab Indonesia The Indonesia Arab Association ( id, Persatuan Arab Indonesia) (PAI) is an association of Arab Indonesians founded by Abdurrahman Baswedan in 1934 in Semarang to encourage the allegiance of Arab immigrants to Indonesia. History On October 4, 1 ...

, an association of Arab Indonesians *

Personality Assessment Inventory Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), developed by Leslie Morey (1991, 2007), is a self-report 344-item personality test that assesses a respondent's personality and psychopathology. Each item is a statement about the respondent that the res ...

, a test given by psychologists *

Photoacoustic imaging Photoacoustic imaging or optoacoustic imaging is a biomedical imaging modality based on the photoacoustic effect. Non-ionizing laser pulses are delivered into biological tissues and part of the energy will be absorbed and converted into heat, le ...

Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) also known as endothelial plasminogen activator inhibitor or serpin E1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''SERPINE1'' gene. Elevated PAI-1 is a risk factor for thrombosis and atherosclerosis P ...

(PAI-1), a protein that inhibits fibrinolysis (breakdown of blood clots) *

Plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 Plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 (placental PAI, SerpinB2, PAI-2), a serine protease inhibitor of the serpin superfamily, is a coagulation factor that inactivates tissue plasminogen activator and urokinase. It is present in most cells, especially ...

(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 A polyatomic ion, also known as a molecular ion, is a covalent bonded set of two or more atoms, or of a metal complex, that can be considered to behave as a single unit and that has a net charge that is not zero. The term molecule may or may no ...

* Population Action International * Primary adrenal insufficiency (primary adrenocortical insufficiency), that is,

Addison's disease Addison's disease, also known as primary adrenal insufficiency, is a rare long-term endocrine disorder characterized by inadequate production of the steroid hormones cortisol and aldosterone by the two outer layers of the cells of the adre ...