Tai or TAI may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Tai (comics) Tai is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A Cambodian, Tai was something of a mentor for the New Warriors in the first 25 issues of their first series. Fictional character biography Tai is an elder ...

a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain *Tai Fraiser, a fictional character in the 1995 film ''

Clueless ''Clueless'' is a 1995 American coming-of-age teen comedy film written and directed by Amy Heckerling. It stars Alicia Silverstone with supporting roles by Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy and Paul Rudd. It was produced by Scott Rudin and Robert La ...

'' *

Tai Kamiya Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, known as in Japan, is a fictional character in the multimedia franchise '' Digimon''. He first appeared in the ''Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01'' manga, where he is sent to the Digital World to meet his Digimon companion Zeroma ...

, a fictional character in ''Digimon''

Businesses and organisations

Avianca El Salvador Transportes Aereos del Continente Americano, (''Air Transports of the American Continent'', known and branded formerly as TACA International), operating as Avianca El Salvador, is an airline owned by Kingsland Holdings based in El Salvador. As ...

, an airline, ICAO code TAI *

The Australia Institute The Australia Institute is a left-wing public policy think tank based in Canberra, Australia. Since its launch in 1994, it has carried out research on a broad range of economic, social, and environmental issues. The institute has offices in Ca ...

, a left-wing think tank *

Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux was a private French airline, based at Orly Airport, Paris. In 1963, it was merged with Union Aéromaritime de Transport on 1 October 1963 to form UTA French Airlines. Operations In the early 1950s its ro ...

(TAI), a defunct French airline *

Turkish Aerospace Industries Turkish Aerospace Inc. ( tr, Türk Havacılık ve Uzay Sanayi A.Ş., TUSAŞ) is the center of technology in design, development, manufacturing, integration of aerospace systems, modernization and after sales support in Turkey. Located in Ankara ...

(TAI)

Ethnic groups and languages

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, Thais, Isan, Tai Yai (Shan), Lao, Tai Ahom, an ...

Tai languages The Tai or Zhuang–Tai languages ( th, ภาษาไท or , transliteration: or ) are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family. The Tai languages include the most widely spoken of the Tai–Kadai languages, including Standard Thai or Si ...

Tai language (New Guinea) Tai (Tay, Ti) is a Kalam language of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ...

People

Tai (given name) Tai is a given name. People with the name include: People with the given name *Tai Babilonia (born 1959), American figure skater *Tai Collins (born 1962), American model and actress *Tai Enosa (born 1989), American Samoan rugby player *Tai Geng (d ...

, including a list of people with the name *

Tai (surname) Tai is a surname in various cultures. Arabic Tai or al-Ta'i, at-Ta'i (), also spelled al-Ta'i or at-Ta'iy, is an Arabic name. In ancient times it originated as a nisba indicating affiliation with the Tayy tribe. * Hatim al-Tai (Hatem ibn Abdellah ...

, including a list of people with the name *

Dai (surname) Dai is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written with the Chinese character . It is romanized as Tai in Wade-Giles and in Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation. Dai is the 96th most common surname in China, according to a rep ...

, a Chinese surname also spelled Tai, including a list of people with the name *Tai, the artist name of poet and painter Kambara Yasushi (1899–1997)

Places

Tai (city) Tai ( Chinese: or , ''Tái'') was a former settlement in China during the Xia dynasty. It was located at the site of present-day Wugong in Shaanxi. It was the ancestral home of the Ji clan, the future dynasty of Zhou. The Xia director of agricu ...

, a former settlement in China during the Xia dynasty * Tai, Ardabil, Iran *

Tai, Lorestan Morgh Mohsen-e Tai ( fa, مرغ محسن طائي, also Romanized as Morgh Moḩsen-e Tā’ī; also known as Margh-e Moḩsen Ţalā’ī, Morgh Moḩsen, and Tā’ī) is a village in Miyankuh-e Sharqi Rural District, Mamulan District, Pol-e Dokh ...

, Iran *

Tai, Rivers Tai is a Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State in Nigeria. It covers an area of 159 km2 and at the 2006 Census it had a population of 117,797. It is part of the Okrika/Oyigbo/Tai/Eleme constituency of the Nigerian Senate, represented sin ...

, Nigeria *

Taï Taï is a town in southwestern Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Taï Department in Cavally Region, Montagnes District. Taï is also a commune. The town is between Taï National Park and the Cavally River. The river—which ...

, Ivory Coast *

Lake Tai Taihu (), also known as Lake Tai or Lake Taihu, is a lake in the Yangtze Delta and one of the largest freshwater lakes in China. The lake is in Jiangsu province and a significant part of its southern shore forms its border with Zhejiang. With ...

, in the Yangtze Delta, China *

Mount Tai Mount Tai () is a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city of Tai'an. It is the highest point in Shandong province, China. The tallest peak is the '' Jade Emperor Peak'' (), which is commonly reported as being t ...

, in Shandong, China *

Taiz International Airport Taiz International Airport ( ar, مَطَار تَعِزّ ٱلدَّوْلِي, Maṭār Ta‘izz Ad-Dawlī, ) is a public airport located in Taiz, the capital of the Taiz Governorate, Yemen. Airlines and destinations As of 2021, there are no l ...

, Yemen, IATA airport code TAI

Other uses

Tai (elephant) Tai (November 4, 1968 – May 7, 2021) was an Asian elephant. She was best known for portraying Bo Tat in the film ''Operation Dumbo Drop'' (1995), Vera in '' Larger than Life'' (1996), and Rosie in ''Water for Elephants'' (2011). Her name was der ...

(1968-2021), an Asian elephant that had appeared in several films *

International Atomic Time International Atomic Time (abbreviated TAI, from its French name ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid. TAI is a weighted average of the time kept by over 450 atomic ...

(TAI, from the French: ''temps atomique international'') *

Red seabream Red seabream is a name given to at least two species of fish of the family Sparidae, ''Pagrus major'' and ''Pagellus bogaraveo''. ''Pagrus major'' ''Pagrus major'' is of great culinary and cultural importance in Japan, and is known as mad ...

(''Pagrus major''), known in Japan as Tai, a fish *

Trifluoromethylaminoindane 5-Trifluoromethyl-2-aminoindane (TAI) is a psychoactive drug and research chemical with putative entactogenic effects. It functions as a selective serotonin releasing agent (SSRA). TAI is the aminoindane analogue of norfenfluramine and is appr ...