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 Madhwas, Madhwa Section following either Kashi Math or Gokarna Matha. The name is also in use among ...

, 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 Pai (, Burmese language, Burmese: ပါယ်) is a small town in northern Thailand's Mae Hong Son Province, near the Myanmar border, about northwest of Chiang Mai on the northern route to Mae Hong Son. It lies on the Pai River. The town has '' ...

, a small town in Mae Hong Son Province ** Pai District, the district around the town **

Pai River The Pai River (, ; ) is a river that originates in the mountains of the Daen Lao Range, Pai District, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until ...

Pai Airport Pai Airport is in Tambon Wiang Tai, Amphoe Pai, Mae Hong Son province in Northern Thailand. Located on a 72.3-rai area around a kilometre away from Mueang Mae Hong Son, the capital district of the province, the airport has one runway (23 m ...

Pai, Tank Pai tank is an administrative unit, known as Union council, of Tank District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. District Tank has 1 Tehsils i.e. Tank. Each tehsil comprises certain numbers of union councils. There are 16 union council ...

, a union council in Pakistan *

Pai Northern Thai Kitchen Pai Northern Thai Kitchen (simply Pai; stylized as PAI) is a restaurant chain in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada serving northern Thai cuisine. Pai has two eat-in locations and three Virtual restaurant, ghost kitchens. The chain is run by chefs N ...

, a restaurant chain in Toronto, Canada

Games

Gwat Pai Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, Tien Gow, tien gow, pai gow, tiu u and kap tai shap. In Cantonese they are called (), which literally means "bone tiles"; it is also the name of a northern Chinese game, where the ru ...

, Chinese dominoes set * Pai Gow, Chinese gambling game **

Pai gow poker Pai gow poker (also called double-hand poker) is a version of pai gow that is played with French-suited playing cards rather than Chinese dominoes. The game of pai gow poker was created in 1985 in the United States by Sam Torosian, owner of ...

, Americanized version

Other uses

Pai languages Pai or PAI may refer to: People * Pai (surname), 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 charact ...

(Paipai, Walapai, Havasupai) * Pai dialect of the

Northern Sotho Sepedi, also known as Northern Sotho, is one of South Africa’s twelve official languages and belongs to the Bantu language family, specifically the Sotho-Tswana group. The language is spoken mainly in Limpopo Province, and to a lesser exten ...

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

Bad Gyal Alba Farelo Solé (born 7 March 1997), known professionally as Bad Gyal, is a Spanish singer and songwriter. Bad Gyal has developed a strong cult following ever since her musical career began in 2016, with an interpretation of Rihanna's "Work ( ...

Acronyms

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

, a French private equity firm * PAI (Personal Activity Intelligence), a fitness indicator developed by researcher

Ulrik Wisløff Ulrik Wisløf (born 12 July 1968) is a Norwegian researcher, a professor and an entrepreneur in the field of exercise physiology, and the Head of the Cardiac Exercise Research Group (CERG) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...

* Parachute Association of Ireland, a representative/regulatory body for skydivers in Ireland * ''Parti Africain de l’Indépendance'' (

African Independence Party The African Independence Party (, PAI) was a communist party in French West Africa (AOF). PAI was founded in Thiès, Senegal in 1957. Later as AOF was dissolved into independent countries the local PAI sections became independent parties, often ke ...

), 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 ma ...

International, a German-based Christian humanitarian organization *

Partnership on AI Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society, otherwise known as Partnership on AI (PAI), is a nonprofit coalition committed to the responsible use of artificial intelligence. Coming into inception in September 2016, PAI g ...

, US-based tech nonprofit committed to responsible AI use *

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 i ...

, 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 in ...

Persatuan Arab Indonesia The Indonesia Arab Association () (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, 1934 a group of forty Muwallad ...

, 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 respo ...

, 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 (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. ...

(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, especial ...

(PAI-2), another protein that inhibits fibrinolysis * ''

Poalei Agudat Yisrael Poalei Agudat Yisrael () was a trade union and Jewish political party in the Second Polish Republic and a minor political party in Israel. It was also known as PAI or PAGI, its Hebrew abbreviation (Hebrew: or ). History Poalei Agudas Izrael wa ...

'', an Israeli political party * ''Polizia dell'Africa Italiana'' ( Italian Police of Africa, police force in the Italian colonies *

Polyamide-imide Polyamide-imides are either thermosetting or thermoplastic, amorphous polymers that have exceptional mechanical, thermal and chemical resistant properties. Polyamide-imides are used extensively as wire coatings in making magnet wire. They are pre ...

, 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 usually has a net charge that is not zero, or in special c ...

Population Action International Population Action International (PAI) is an international, civil society organization that uses research and advocacy to improve global access to family planning and reproductive health care. Its mission is to "advance universal access to sexual ...

* 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 adr ...