Zi or ZI may refer to: *

Zi (surname) Zi (子) was the royal surname of the Kings of the Shang dynasty, originally from their ancestor named Xie (契). After the fall of the Shang and the rise of the Zhou dynasty, the royal family changed their surname to Yīn (殷), the name of the ...

(子), a surname used by Shang kings *

Zi (title) The nobility of China was an important feature of the traditional social structure of Ancient China and Imperial China. While the concepts of hereditary sovereign and peerage titles and noble families were featured as early as the semi-mythical ...

(子), a Chinese honorific used for ancient viscounts and for master philosophers *

Zi (name) A courtesy name (), also known as a style name, is a name bestowed upon one at adulthood in addition to one's given name. This practice is a tradition in the East Asian cultural sphere, including China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.Ulrich Theoba ...

(字), an alternate term for East Asian courtesy names *

Zi (cuneiform) The cuneiform zi sign is a common multi-use sign of the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', the 1350 BC Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. It also has a sumerogrammic usage for ZI in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''. The structure of the cuneiform sign ...

, a sign in cuneiform writing *

Zi Corporation Zi Corporation was a software company based in Calgary, Canada. The company was founded on 4 December 1987 as Cancom Ventures Inc, owning an Edmonton secretarial college and an industrial equipment rental business. On 30 August 1989 the name was c ...

, a Canadian software company * ''Zi'' (album), a 2016 album by Negură Bunget *

Zi (prefix symbol) A binary prefix is a unit prefix for multiples of units. It is most often used in data processing, data transmission, and digital information, principally in association with the bit and the byte, to indicate multiplication by a power of& ...

of the binary unit prefix zebi for digital data *

Zi (Zoids) , or simply , is a Japanese science fiction media franchise created by Tomy that feature giant robots (or "mecha") called "Zoids". A Zoid is essentially a large mechanical animal, with designs being based on animals; including dinosaurs, ins ...

, a fictional planet in the ''Zoids'' media franchise *

Zona incerta The zona incerta (ZI) is a horizontally elongated region of gray matter in the subthalamus below the thalamus. Its connections project extensively over the brain from the cerebral cortex down into the spinal cord. Its function is unknown, though ...

, a region in the subthalamus *

Aigle Azur Aigle Azur was a French airline based and headquartered at Paris Orly Airport. The airline operated scheduled flights from France to 21 destinations across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, with a fleet of Airbus A320 family and A330 airc ...

(IATA airline code)

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