KI

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Contents 1 Acronyms 2 Abbreviations 3 Popular Culture

KI, Ki or ki may refer to:

• Ki (goddess), the Sumerian goddess of the Earth
• Qi: the Korean and Japanese words both roughly pronounced ki, both from Chinese qi, the originally Chinese cultural concept meaning "life force" or "spiritual energy"
• Ki (kana), one of the Japanese kana
• Kī or Ti (plant), the Hawaiian name for the plant Cordyline fruticosa
• K_i, enzyme inhibition
• KI, Potassium iodide

[edit] Acronyms

• KI, Soviet Committee of Information, Ministry of Foreign Affairs from (1947–52)
• KÍ Klaksvík, a Faroese football team from the town of Klaksvík
• Kangaroo Island, Australia's third largest island
• Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, the institute involved in choosing the Nobel Prize winner in Medicine and Physiology
• Potassium iodide, a chemical compound with the chemical formula KI
• Adam Air IATA airline designator

[edit] Abbreviations

• The Gikuyu language (ISO 639 alpha-2, ki)
• Kiribati (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, KI)
• In the Japanese language, Ki is an abbreviation for Kitai = "type" or "model" in the Japanese Air Force when specifying types of aircraft
• Ki, an abbreviation for the IEEE prefix kibi which represents 2¹⁰ = 1024
• Ki Database, a public domain database of published binding affinities (Ki)

[edit] Popular Culture

• The heroine of Tower of Druaga and its sequels is named Ki ("Kai" in Japanese). Ki is the ancient goddess of Kish and Eridu.
• Ki, a legendary force energy made popular in all three Dragon Ball series
• KI, a D'ni communication device used in Uru
• Killer Instinct a fighting videogame.

• Ki and Enki in Sumerian myth got drunk and created man from clay