Rai or RAI may refer to:

Geography

• Rai (area), a traditional Thai unit of area, equaling 1,600 m²
• Rai, Orne, a commune of the Orne département, in France
• Rai, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran

People

• Rai (surname)
• Rai Bahadur or Rai Sahib a noble title given during British Raj in India.
• Rai (title) means King and is equivalent to Rao or Roy a princely title used by many Hindu rulers in India.
• Rai (ethnic group), an ethnolinguistic group of Nepal
• Rai dynasty (c. 416–644 CE), a Buddhist dynasty based in Sindh, in modern-day Pakistan
• Raí, Brazilian football (soccer) player
• Rai Sikh, adherents of Sikh faith. Some can be Sikhs, but the vast majority are usually Hindus.^[1]

Fictional characters

• Rai (comics), fictional character from Valiant Comics
• Rai Bakuoh, one of the characters from the fighting game Waku Waku 7
• Rai, the protagonist of the anime Ginga Sengoku Gun'yūden Rai

Film and Music

• Rai (2016 film), Indian film about Muthappa Rai
• Raï (1995 film) Raï is a 1995 French film directed by Thomas Gilou.
• Raï, a form of folk music that originated in Oran, Algeria, from Bedouin shepherds and evolved into a popular genre

Languages and literature

• Rai (Thai: ร่าย), a Thai poetic form used in laws and chronicles
• Rai languages, Dhanwar Rai language
• Rai (also Raai), the Hindi term for Mustard seeds
• Rai, Slavonic term for paradise

Other

• Rai University, a university in India
• Rai stones, a kind of stone currency used in Yap (Caroline Islands)

Acronyms

• RAI, Radiotelevisione Italiana, an Italian broadcasting company
• Radioactive iodine (Isotopes of iodine § Notable radioisotopes)
  • Radioactive iodine uptake test (RAI uptake test), a diagnostic scan that measures uptake of RAI in the thyroid
• IATA airport code for Praia International Airport in Cape Verde
• Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
• Islamic Republic of Iran Railways
• Réseau Aérien Interinsulaire, a former name of the airline Air Tahiti
• Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, or RAI for short, is a conference center in Amsterdam the Netherlands
• RAI, the NYSE symbol and acronym for Reynolds American, Inc., an American tobacco company

See also

• Raï (disambiguation)
• Rei (disambiguation)
• Ray (disambiguation)
• Rey (disambiguation)