Zi or ZI may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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

Zi (Zoids) is a Japanese science fiction media franchise created by Tomy that feature giant robots (or "mecha") called Zoids, with designs being based on animals; including dinosaurs, mammals, insects, arachnids and mythological creatures. The franchise ...

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

Language

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 *

Chinese characters Chinese characters are logographs used Written Chinese, to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four independently invented writing systems accepted by scholars, they represe ...

, known as ''zi'' (字) * Thracian word derived from '' *Dyēus''

People

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 thei ...

(子), a surname used by Shang kings *

Zi (title) The nobility of China represented the upper strata of aristocracy in premodern China, acting as the ruling class until , and remaining a significant feature of the traditional social structure until the end of the imperial period. The concepts ...

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

Zi (name) A courtesy name ( zh, s=字, p=zì, l=character), also known as a style name, is an additional name bestowed upon individuals at adulthood, complementing their given name. This tradition is prevalent in the East Asian cultural sphere, particula ...

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

Science, technology and transport

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 ch ...

, a Canadian software company *

Zi (prefix symbol) A binary prefix is a unit prefix that indicates a multiple of a unit of measurement by an integer power of two. The most commonly used binary prefixes are kibi (symbol Ki, meaning ), mebi (), and gibi (). They are most often used in informat ...

, for digital data size *

Zona incerta The zona incerta (ZI) is a horizontally elongated small Nucleus (neuroanatomy), nucleus that separates the larger subthalamic nucleus from the thalamus. Its connections project extensively over the brain from the cerebral cortex down into the spin ...

, a brain region *

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 aircr ...

French airline (1946–1955; IATA:ZI) {{disambiguation