Dai

Dai can mean:

• Dai people, one of the 56 recognized ethnic minorities of China
• Dai (Yindu), ethnic tribe of Chin, Myanmar
• Dai County, in Shanxi, China
• Dai (Spring and Autumn Period), a state during the Spring and Autumn Period
• Dai (Sixteen Kingdoms), a Xianbei state during the Sixteen Kingdoms era of history of China
• Da'i (Arabic: "missionary") refers to a person who engages in Dawah, the act of inviting people to Islam
• A greeting and farewell used by the wizards in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series

Acronyms

• DAI, an international development firm formerly known as Development Alternatives Inc.
• The DAI Personal Computer, an early home computer from Belgium
• the New York Stock Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange stock symbol for automaker Daimler AG, maker of Mercedes-Benz
• Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference refers to changes in the Earth's climate system, resulting from human activity, which are considered to be dangerous to human communities and to ecosystems
• Darjeeling Airport IATA code of Darjeeling airport in India
• De Administrando Imperio, a Byzantine historical compilation written by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos
• Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (German Archaeological Institute), an archaeological institute operated by the German ministry of foreign affairs
• the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut (German-American Institute)
• Diffuse axonal injury, a type of traumatic brain injury
• Digital Author Identification, Dutch Author Identification system to assign a unique number to all authors in the Dutch research system
• Direct Audio Input, a port used in hearing aids and hearing instruments
• Distributed artificial intelligence, a subfield of artificial intelligence
• Do As Infinity, a Japanese band
• Doctor's Associates, Inc., a US-based restaurant company which owns the Subway restaurant name
• Dynamic ARP Inspection, an ARP Spoofing or ARP Poison/Routing (APR) protection method developed by Cisco

Names

• Dai, the Welsh diminutive form of David (name) or its Welsh equivalent Dafydd
• Dai, a Chinese surname
• Dai Davies (footballer)
• Dai Davies (politician)
• Dai Matsumoto, a Japanese voice actor
• Dai Nagao, Japanese composer, musician and producer
• Dai Satō, a Japanese screenwriter and musician
• Dai Ward, Wales international footballer
• Dai Young, Wales international rugby union player
• Dai Henwood, a New Zealand comedian

Music

• "Dai the Flu", a song on the Deftones album Around the Fur