Thai or THAI may refer to:
* Of or from
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...
, a country in Southeast Asia.
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Thai people
Thai people, historically known as Siamese people, are an ethnic group native to Thailand. In a narrower and ethnic sense, the Thais are also a Tai peoples, Tai ethnic group dominant in Central Thailand, Central and Southern Thailand (Siam prope ...
, Siamese people, Central/Southern Thai people or Thai noi people, an ethnic group from Central and Southern Thailand.
** , Thai minority in southern Myanmar.
** , Bamar with Thai ancestry in Central Myanmar.
** Sukhothai language, a kind of
Thai topolect, by the end of the 18th century, they gradually diverged into regional variants, which subsequently developed into the modern Central Thai and Southern Thai.
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Central Thai language or Siamese language, the sole official language in Thailand and first language of most people in Central Thailand, including
Thai Chinese
Thai Chinese (also known as Chinese Thais, Sino-Thais) are persons of Chinese people, Chinese descent in Thailand. Thai Chinese are the largest mixed group in the country and the largest overseas Chinese community in the world with a popul ...
in Southern Thailand.
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Southern Thai language
Southern Thai ( ), also known as Dambro ( ), Pak Tai ( ), or "Southern language" ( ), is a Southwestern Tai ethnolinguistic identity and language spoken in southern Thailand, as well as by small communities in the northernmost states of Malays ...
, or Southern Siamese language, or
Tambralinga language, language of Southern Thailand first language of most people in Southern Thailand
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Thai script
The Thai script (, , ) is the abugida used to write Thai language, Thai, Southern Thai language, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand. The Thai script itself (as used to write Thai) has 44 consonant symbols (, ), 16 vowel s ...
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Thai (Unicode block)
People with the name
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Thai (surname), a Vietnamese version of Cai, including a list of people with the name
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Thai Lee
Thai Lee (born 1958) is a Thai-born Korean-American billionaire businesswoman, the co-owner, CEO and president of SHI International, reported by ''Forbes'' to be the largest woman-owned business in the US. In May 2025, she was worth US$5.8 billi ...
(born 1958), an American businesswoman
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Thai Nguyen, US-based Vietnamese fashion designer and television personality
Other uses
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Thai (cannabis), a name for the drug
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Thai Airways International, the national airline of Thailand
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Thai cat, a breed of cat in Thailand
* Thai, a month in the
Tamil calendar
The Tamil calendar (தமிழ் நாட்காட்டி) is a Sidereal time, sidereal solar calendar used by the Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It is also used in Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry, and by the Tamil ...
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Thai Pongal or simply Pongal, an agricultural festival in Tamil Nadu, India celebrated during the month
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Toe to Heel Air Injection
Oil sands are a type of unconventional oil, unconventional petroleum deposit. They are either loose sands, or partially consolidated sandstone containing a naturally occurring mixture of sand, clay, and water, soaked with bitumen (a dense and ...
(THAI), a method of extracting oil from oil sands
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Thái people (Vietnam)
Thái people ( Vietnamese: ''Người Thái'') in Vietnam are officially recognized by the Vietnamese government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. They are Tai ethnic groups that speak various Tai languages and use the Tai Viet script. T ...
, an ethnic group in Vietnam
See also
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Dai (disambiguation)
Dai may refer to:
Names
* Dai (given name), a Welsh or Japanese masculine given name
* Dai (surname) (戴), a Chinese surname
* Bảo Đại (保大), Emperor of Vietnam from 1926 to 1945
Places and regimes
* Dai Commandery, a commandery of ...
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Tai (disambiguation)
Tai or TAI may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Tai (comics) a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain
*Tai Fraiser, a fictional character in the 1995 film '' Clueless''
* Tai Kamiya, a fictional character in ''Digimon''
Businesses
* Avianca El ...
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Tay (disambiguation)
Tay or TAY may refer to:
People and languages
* Tay (name), including lists of people with the given name, surname and nickname
* Tay people, an ethnic group of Vietnam
** Tày language
* Atayal language, an Austronesian language spoken in Tai ...
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Thais (disambiguation)
Thais can be the plural of ''Thai'' and refer to:
* The Thai people, the main ethnic group of Thailand
* The Thai peoples or Tai peoples, the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia
In the singular, Thais may refer to:
People Ancie ...
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Thay (disambiguation) Thay may refer to:
* Thầy Temple, a Buddhist temple in Hanoi, Vietnam
* Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926 – 2022), nicknamed ''Thầy'' (Vietnamese: teacher), a Vietnamese monk and peace activist
* Dalek Thay, a character in the ''Doctor Who'' TV seri ...
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Tie (disambiguation)
Tie has two principal meanings:
* Tie (draw), a finish to a competition with identical results, particularly sports
* Necktie, a long piece of cloth worn around the neck or shoulders
Tie or TIE may also refer to:
Engineering and technology
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Siam (disambiguation)
Siam is the former name of Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a po ...
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Tai peoples
Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages. There are a total of about 93 million people of Tai ancestry worldwide, with the largest ethnic groups being Dai people, Dai, Thai people, Thai, Isan people, Isan, ...
or Thai peoples, the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia
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Thai tea or "cha-yen", a drink made from black tea
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