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People

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Kui people The Kuy ( km, កួយ, th, กูย) are an indigenous ethnic group of mainland Southeast Asia. The native lands of the Kuy range from the southern Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand east to the banks of the Mekong River in southern Laos and ...
, a Mon-Khmer ethnic minority *
Kui Lee Kui Lee (born Kuiokalani Lee; July 31, 1932 – December 3, 1966) was an American singer-songwriter. Lee began his career in the mainland United States while performing as a dancer. Upon his return to Hawaii, he worked in clubs. At the Honey cl ...
, a singer-songwriter


People with the surname Kui (奎)

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Kui Yuanyuan Kui Yuanyuan (Simplified Chinese: 奎媛媛; born June 23, 1981) is a former artistic gymnast from China who competed in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games. Gymnastics career Kui won the floor exercise at the 1996 World Artistic Gymnastics ...
, a Chinese gymnast


Places

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Kui, Hiroshima was a town located in Mitsugi District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,392 and a density of 86.73 persons per km2. The total area was 62.17 km2. On March 22, 2005, Kui, along with the tow ...
, a Japanese town * Kawau Island Airport, IATA code KUI, on
Kawau Island Kawau Island is in the Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana, close to the north-eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand. At its closest point it lies off the coast of the Northland Peninsula, just south of Tāwharanui Peninsula, and about ...


Astronomy

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KUI 91AB U Aquilae is a binary star system in the constellation Aquila, Located approximately away from Earth. The primary star (component A) is a yellow supergiant with a radius of and a luminosity of . The secondary (component B) is a bl ...
, a variable star of Delta Cephei type *
KUI 93AB QS Aquilae is a triple or quadruple star system consisting of an eclipsing binary A binary star is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other. Binary stars in the night sky that are seen as ...
, an eclipsing binary of Algol variable type


Other uses

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Kui (Chinese mythology) ''Kui'' () is a polysemous Polysemy ( or ; ) is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme, a word, or a phrase) to have multiple related meanings. For example, a word can have several word senses. Polysemy is distinct from ''monosemy ...
夔, a one-legged mountain demon, also legendary inventor of music and dance *
Kui (dragonball) ''Dragon Ball'' is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The franchise features an ensemble cast of characters and takes place in the same fictional universe as Toriyama's other work, ''Dr. Slump''. While many of the cha ...
, a manga character *
Kui (music) Kui is a Kipchak instrumental musical composition performed with national plucked, bow and wind instruments such as dombyra, qobyz, syrnai, mostly with the plucked dombyra of the Kazakhs and Komuz of the Kyrgyzs. In the 20th century, Kazakh S ...
, comes from Kazakh language *
Kui (Māori mythology) Kui was a chthonic demigoddess and the wife of Tuputupuwhenua in Māori mythology. They supposedly live underground and when a new house is built, a tuft of grass is offered to them. Kui is also the name of the father of Vahi-vero and the gr ...
, a chthonic Māori demigod, also father of Vahi-vero in Tuamotu mythology *
Kui kuningas nutab Kui may refer to: People *Kui people, a Mon-Khmer ethnic minority *Kui Lee, a singer-songwriter People with the surname Kui (奎) *Kui Yuanyuan, a Chinese gymnast Places *Kui, Hiroshima, a Japanese town * Kawau Island Airport, IATA code KUI, on ...
, a 1997 song by Terminaator *
Kui language (India) Kui (କୁଇ)(also Kandh, Khondi, Khond, Khondo, Kanda, Kodu (Kōdu), Kodulu, Kuinga (Kūinga), Kuy) is a South-Eastern Dravidian language spoken by the Kandhas. It is mostly spoken in Odisha, and written in the Odia script. With 941,988 re ...
, a Dravidian language spoken by the Khonds *
Kui language (Indonesia) Kui is a Timor–Alor–Pantar language spoken in several enclaves on Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The language is called 'Masin lak' in Kui. Although the exact number of speakers is unknown, Kui is an endangered language since ...
, a Timor–Alor–Pantar language *
Kui the Horseclaw Kui may refer to: People *Kui people, a Mon-Khmer ethnic minority *Kui Lee, a singer-songwriter People with the surname Kui (奎) *Kui Yuanyuan, a Chinese gymnast Places *Kui, Hiroshima, a Japanese town * Kawau Island Airport, IATA code KUI, on ...
, a character in ''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'' *KUI, acronym for
Kinetic user interface Gesture recognition is a topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms. It is a subdiscipline of computer vision. Gestures can originate from any bodily motion or stat ...


See also

* Kui language (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, surname