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'Dai' can mean:

★ Dai people, one of the 56 recognized ethnic minorities of China

★ Dai (midwife), a traditional midwife in India, belonging to a lower caste

★ Da'i (Arabic: "missionary") refers to a person who engages in Dawah, the act of inviting people to Islam

★ State of Dai was a Xianbei state during the Sixteen Kingdoms era of history of China

★ Dai () is also a Sino-Japanese morpheme for "big," appearing in a number of Japanese words and names (and even a few pseudo-Japanese words, such as Daikatana)

★ Dai is the greeting, and farewell, used by the wizards in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.

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Acronyms

★ The DAI Personal Computer, an early (1980) home computer from Belgium.

★ Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference refers to changes in the Earth's climate system, resulting from human activity, which are considered to be dangerous to human communities and to ecosystems.

★ code of Darjeeling airport in India

★ De Administrando Imperio, a Byzantine historical compilation written by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos

★ DAI (''Derzhavna Avtomobyl'na Inspektsiya''), the traffic police branch of the Ukrainian militsiya.

★ German (Deutsche) Archaeological Institute, an archaeological institute operated by the German ministry of foreign affairs

★ Diffuse axonal injury, a type of traumatic brain injury

★ Direct Audio Input, a port used in hearing aids and hearing instruments

★ Dissertation Abstracts International, a source for online dissertations

★ Distributed artificial intelligence, a subfield of artificial intelligence

★ Do As Infinity, a Japanese band

★ Doctor's Associates, Inc., a U.S.-based restaurant company which owns the Subway (restaurant) name.

Names

★ Dai is the Welsh diminutive form of David or its Welsh equivalent Dafydd

★ Dai () is a Chinese surname.

★ Dai Davies (footballer)

★ Dai Davies (politician)

★ Dai Young (footballer), rugby coach