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 som ...

, Indian surname from coastal Karnataka and Goa plus people with the name *

Pai (Chinese surname) Bái is the pinyin of the surname 白, meaning the colour white. Another surname, 柏, meaning the tree cypress. This one is the 37th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem. Since 柏 is a character with two readings, it is often mistak ...

, includes Chinese name origin, plus people with the name

Fictional characters

Pai (Manga character) 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 characte ...

, a character from "3x3 Eyes" *

Pie (Tokyo Mew Mew) The ''Tokyo Mew Mew'' manga and anime series features a cast of characters designed by Mia Ikumi. The series takes place in Tokyo, Japan, where five adolescent girls, called Mew Mews, are infused with the DNA of endangered species to combat alien ...

, a villain from the manga and anime series ''Tokyo Mew Mew''

Places

Pai, Iran Ghehi ( fa, قهي, also Romanized as Ghehī; also known as Kehi and Pāi) is a village in Emamzadeh Abdol Aziz Rural District, Jolgeh District Jolgeh District ( fa, بخش_جلگه) is a district (bakhsh) in Isfahan County, Isfahan Province, Iran ...

, a village in Isfahan Province *

Pai, Thailand Pai ( th, ปาย, Burmese: ပါယ်) is a small town in northern Thailand's Mae Hong Son Province, near the Myanmar border, about 146 km (91 mi) northwest of Chiang Mai on the northern route to Mae Hong Son. It lies on the Pai Riv ...

, 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. The river flows first in a north-south direction and then in an east-west direction down to Mueang Mae Hong S ...

Pai Airport Pai Airport ( th, ท่าอากาศยานปาย) is an airport serving Pai, a town in Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand. Originally constructed during World War II by the Japanese Imperial Army, the airport was deserted after the en ...

Pai, Tank Mulazai 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

Games

Gwat Pai Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, 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 rules are q ...

, 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 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 characte ...

(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 (पाई) or sometimes called Pahi (पाही) is a fish trap fabricated by using ''Thakal daantha'' (थाकलकॊ डाॅठ) and ''Beshram'' (बेश्रम)/''byaye'' (व्याय)/''ajambari'' (अजम्बरी) ...

* "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, DJ and model. Known for her distinctive overall use of Auto-Tune, Bad Gyal has developed a strong cult following ever since her musica ...

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 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 (55 employees) (ntnu.edu/cerg) at the Dept. of Circulation and ...

Parachute Association of Ireland The Parachute Association of Ireland (PAI) is a national governing body for skydiving in Ireland. It is affiliated to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale The (; FAI; en, World Air Sports Federation) is the world governing body fo ...

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

African Independence Party African Independence Party (in French: ''Parti Africain de l'Indépendance'') 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 section ...

), 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 *

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 ( 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, ...

, 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 resp ...

, 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, l ...

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, especiall ...

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

Poalei Agudat Yisrael Poalei Agudat Yisrael ( he, פועלי אגודת ישראל, , Agudat Yisrael Workers) was a trade union and Jewish political party in Poland and a minor political party in Israel. It was also known as PAI or PAGI, its Hebrew acronym (Hebrew: o ...

'', 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 has a net charge that is not zero. The term molecule may or may n ...

Population Action International Population Action International (PAI) is an international, non-governmental organization that uses research and advocacy to improve global access to family planning and reproductive health care. Its mission is to "ensure that every person has th ...

* 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 adrena ...

, a rare endocrine disorder *