Kun

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Kun may refer to:

  • Kun () and Peng, two forms of a creature from Chinese mythology
  • Kun is in Finnish mythology
  • Kunqu or Kun Opera, a Chinese opera genre
  • kun (), a Japanese honorific
  • the kun'yomi () reading of Kanji
  • one of a pair of mountain peaks in the Nun Kun massif in Kashmir, India
  • nickname of Argentine footballer Sergio Agüero
  • The Arabic verb (كن) "to be" in imperative form, supposedly the Word Allah uttered to create the universe.
  • Joseph Kun, violin and bow maker and renowned violin pedagogue in his native Czechoslovakia, inventor of a widely used violin rest introduced in 1972.
  • a named place in the Papua region of Indonesia
  • the IATA airport code for Kaunas Airport in Kaunas, Lithuania
  • Béla Kun, a Hungarian communist politician.