Ki or KI may refer to:

Music

* ''Ki'' (album), a 2009 album by Devin Townsend Project * ''Ki'', a 1979 album by Kitarō * "Ki", a song from the album ''

Minecraft – Volume Beta The music of the 2011 video game ''Minecraft'', developed by Mojang Studios, primarily consists of two soundtrack albums by German musician Daniel Rosenfeld, better known as C418. American composer Lena Raine has also contributed music for four ...

'' by C418

Businesses and organizations

Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag ("Klaksvík Sports Club"), commonly abbreviated to KÍ and also known as KÍ Klaksvík, is a Faroe Islands, Faroese professional association football, football club based in Klaksvík. The club was founded in 1904 a ...

, a Faroese semi-professional football club *

Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; ; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally ...

, Swedish university *

Kenyon Institute The Kenyon Institute, previously known as the British School of Archaeology at Jerusalem (BSAJ), is a British research institute supporting humanities and social science studies in Israel and Palestine. It is part of the Council for British Resear ...

, a British research institute in Jerusalem *

Adam Air Adam Air (incorporated as PT. Adam SkyConnection Airlines) was a privately owned airline based in West Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. It operated scheduled domestic services to over 20 cities and international services to Penang and Singapore. Its ...

(2002–2008), an Indonesian airline *

Kiwanis International Kiwanis International ( ) is an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, and is found in more than 80 nations and geographic areas. In 1987, the organization ...

, service club

Language

Ki language The Ki language, ''Tuki'' (Baki, Oki), is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It is spoken by 26,000 people in the Central Province of Cameroon, in the Lekie division and in the Mbam and Kim division, along the Sanaga river.Biloa, E. (2 ...

, a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon *

Ki (kana) き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent and are derived from a simplification of the kanji. The hiragana character き, like さ, is drawn with the lower line either conn ...

, a Japanese syllabic character *

Ki (cuneiform) Ki or KI may refer to: Music * ''Ki'' (album), a 2009 album by Devin Townsend Project * ''Ki'', a 1979 album by Kitarō * "Ki", a song from the album '' Minecraft – Volume Beta'' by C418 Businesses and organizations * Klaksvíkar Ítrótta ...

, a sign in cuneiform writing *

Gikuyu language Kikuyu or Gikuyu ( ) (also known as Gĩgĩkũyũ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Gĩkũyũ (''Agĩkũyũ'') of Kenya. Kikuyu is mainly spoken in the area between Nyeri, Kiambu, Nairobi and Nakuru. The Kikuyu people usually identify th ...

, ISO 639-1 code:ki

Names

Ki (Korean surname) Ki () also romanized as Gi or Kee, is a Korean family name. According to the 2015 census, there were 29,062 people with this surname in South Korea. It is written with four different hanja. Notable people Notable people of the past * Ki Cha-o ( ...

, a Korean surname * Ki or

Qi (surname) Qi is the romanization of several Chinese family names, including 祁 (Qí), 齊/齐 (Qí), 戚 (Qī), 乞 (Qí), 奇 (Qí), 亓 (Qí) and 綦 (Qí). Qí (祁) surname Qi (祁, also commonly written as Chi, and Kei in Cantonese) is a Chinese sur ...

* Ki or

Ji (surname) Ji is the pinyin romanization of a number of distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different Chinese characters, characters in Chinese. Depending on the character, it may be spelled Jī, Jí, Jǐ, or Jì when Tone (linguistics), tone diac ...

Places

Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island (, ) is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island, Northern Territory, Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest of Adelaide. Its closest point to the mainland is Snapper Poi ...

, South Australia * Ki Monastery, in India *

Kiawah Island Kiawah may refer to * Kiawah Island, South Carolina * the Kiawah people The Kiawah were a tribe of Cusabo people, an alliance of Indigenous groups in lowland regions of the coastal region of what became Charleston, South Carolina. When Engli ...

, South Carolina, United States *

King Island (Tasmania) King Island is an island in Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania. It is the largest of four islands known as the New Year Island (Tasmania), New Year Group and the second-largest island in Bass Strait (after Flinders Islan ...

, Australia *

Kings Island Kings Island is a amusement park northeast of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags, the park was built by Taft Broadcasting and opened in 1972. It was part of a larger effort to move and expand Coney Islan ...

, Ohio, United States, amusement park owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company *

Kiribati Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, and more than half live on Tarawa. The st ...

** .ki, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code top level domain for Kiribati *

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (Oji-Cree language, Oji-Cree: ᑭᐦᒋᓇᒣᑯᐦᓯᑊ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ (''Gichi-namegosib ininiwag''); unpointed: ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᑊ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ or ᑭᐦᒋᓇᒣᑯᐦᓯᐱᐎᓂᓂᐗᐠ (''Gichi- ...

Religion and metaphysics

Ki (goddess) Ki (Sumerian: ) was the earth goddess in Sumerian religion, chief consort of the sky god An. In some legends, Ki and An were brother and sister, being the offspring of Anshar ("Sky Pivot") and Kishar ("Earth Pivot"), earlier personifications of ...

* '' Qi'', or ''ki'' in Japanese, a vital force according to Chinese culture that forms part of any living thing

Science and technology

Biology and chemistry

Ti (plant) ''Cordyline fruticosa'' is an evergreen flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is known by a wide variety of common names, including ti plant, palm lily, cabbage palm. The plant has been cultivated in Asia and Oceania, with a number of ...

, also called Kī * ''K''_i, an

equilibrium constant The equilibrium constant of a chemical reaction is the value of its reaction quotient at chemical equilibrium, a state approached by a dynamic chemical system after sufficient time has elapsed at which its composition has no measurable tendency ...

for a chemical reaction or process "i": **

dissociation constant In chemistry, biochemistry, and pharmacology, a dissociation constant (''K''D) is a specific type of equilibrium constant that measures the propensity of a larger object to separate (dissociate) reversibly into smaller components, as when a complex ...

applicable to process, abbreviated as "i". ** a measure of the binding affinity of a ligand to a biomolecule *

Potassium iodide Potassium iodide is a chemical compound, medication, and dietary supplement. It is a medication used for treating hyperthyroidism, in radiation emergencies, and for protecting the thyroid gland when certain types of radiopharmaceuticals are u ...

, chemical formula KI *

Gene knockin In molecular cloning and biology, a gene knock-in (abbreviation: KI) refers to a genetic engineering method that involves the one-for-one substitution of DNA sequence information in a genetic locus or the insertion of sequence information not fou ...

or Knock-in, a genetic engineering method * Ki Database, a database of biochemical information

Computing

* Ki (prefix symbol), the prefix symbol of the binary unit prefix kibi * Ki, International Electrotechnical Commission standard symbol for number 1024 * K-I algorithm, Kittler and Illingworth iterative algorithm for image segmentation thresholding * Ki (or K_i), the unique cryptographic key of each cell phone's

SIM card A typical SIM card (mini-SIM with micro-SIM cutout)A SIM card or SIM (subscriber identity module) is an integrated circuit (IC) intended to securely store an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number and its related key, which are u ...

Other uses

Knowledge integration Knowledge integration is the process of synthesizing multiple knowledge models (or representations) into a common model (representation). Compared to information integration, which involves merging information having different schemas and represe ...

, in epistemology * Grover C. Winn (1886–1943), nicknamed "Ki", American lawyer and politician