Wai or WAI may refer to :

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Wai, Maharashtra Wai (Pronunciation: �aːi) is a town in Satara district of Maharashtra state in India. Located on the Krishna River, Wai was a prominent town during the Peshwa era. Two important Maratha Brahmin from ruling families had their origins here: Ran ...

, a small town in India **

Wai (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Wai Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in Satara district, Maharashtra, India. It is a part of the Satara (Lok Sabha constituency), along with five other assembly constituencies, viz Patan, ...

, a Maharashtra Legislative Assembly constituency centered around the town *

Wao State Vav is a town and the headquarters of Vav Taluka in Banaskantha district in Gujarat state of India. Vav is the largest taluka of the district. History The Rana, rulers of Vav, came from Sambhar and Nadol in Rajasthan, and claim kindred with Prit ...

(Vav, Wai, Way), a former princely state in Banas Katha, Gujarat, India *

Wa (Japan) is the oldest attested name of Japan in foreign sources (names such as Fusang or Penglai are mythological or legendary, thus are not considered). The Chinese and Korean scribes regularly wrote it in reference to the inhabitants of the Wa K ...

(倭), the Cantonese pronunciation of an ancient name of Japan, sometimes transcribed as ''Wai'' *

Koh Wai Koh Wai, km, កោះពូលូវៃ, also known as Poulo Wai or the Wai Islands, is a group of two small wooded and uninhabited islands in the Gulf of Siam. The islands are located far away from the shore, to the southwest of the coast of ...

, also known as Poulo Wai or the Wai Islands, is a group of two small uninhabited islands in the Gulf of Siam, Cambodia * The Wai,

Tai Wai station Tai Wai station is an interchange station on the and the of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system in Hong Kong. The station is located in Tai Wai, Sha Tin District. History The station opened in a temporary location on 15 August 1983 as ...

, Tai Wai, New Territories, Hong Kong; a shopping mall on top of Tai Wai station

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* Wai, a term referring to the

walled villages of Hong Kong Most of the walled villages of Hong Kong are located in the New Territories. History During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the shore of Guangdong suffered from pirates, and the area of present-day Hong Kong was particularly vulnerable to pira ...

* Wai, the Cantonese-derived orthography for the Chinese surname

Wéi (surname 韋) Wéi () is a Chinese surname. It means ‘leather’ in Classical Chinese. It was the 62nd most common name in China as of 2018. It is Wai in Cantonese. It is the 50th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem. The Wei (韋) family name is d ...

* ''Wai'', Māori word for "water" or "river", used as a common prefix in

New Zealand place names Most New Zealand place names have a Māori or a British origin. Both groups used names to commemorate notable people, events, places from their homeland, and their ships, or to describe the surrounding area. It is unknown whether Māori had a nam ...

* Wai, a form of

Thai greeting The Thai greeting referred to as the ''wai'' ( th, ไหว้, ) consists of a slight bow, with the palms pressed together in a prayer-like fashion. It has its origin in the Indian ''Añjali Mudrā'', like the Indian ''namaste'' and Burmese ...

Web Accessibility Initiative The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) for people with disabilities. People with disabilities may encounter difficulties when using com ...

, an effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) for people with disabilities * NO WAI, a phrase that is part of the

O RLY? O RLY? is an Internet phenomenon, typically presented as an image macro featuring a snowy owl. The phrase "O RLY?", an abbreviated form of "Oh, really?", is popularly used in Internet forums in a sarcastic manner, often in response to an obvious, ...

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