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  2. Kai (name) - Wikipedia

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    The name Kai / ˈ k aɪ / has various origins and meanings in different cultures: In Estonian , Kai is a female name derived from Katherine . In Persian , Kai, or Kay, is a male name, meaning "king".

  3. Sōshi-kaimei - Wikipedia

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    Sōshi-kaimei (Japanese: 創氏改名, Korean: 일본식 성명 강요, 창씨개명) was a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names and identify as such. The primary reason for the policy was to forcibly assimilate Koreans, as was done with the Ainu and the Ryukyuans .

  4. List of Korean surnames - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Korean surnames, in Hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim (김), followed by Lee (이) and Park (박). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics (currently 2015) as the basis.

  5. Kai - Wikipedia

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    Kai, the 2020 eponymous debut extended play by Korean singer Kai; Kai, drummer in the Japanese rock band The Gazette; Kai, a compilation album in the Dir En Grey discography (2001) "Kai", song by the Future Sound of London, from their 1994 album, ISDN; Kai, a kind of overtone singing in the Altai Republic and Khakassia

  6. Kiai - Wikipedia

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    The term is a compound of ki (Japanese: 気), meaning "energy" or "mood" and a(u) (Japanese: 合, infinitive ai), an emphatic marker. [1] The same concept is known as kihap in many Korean martial arts, such as taekwondo and Tang Soo Do, ki being the energy and hap meaning to join, to harmonize or to amplify, based on the Korean reading of the same characters; its Hangul spelling is 기합.

  7. List of Yakuza syndicates - Wikipedia

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    Inagawa is the surname of the founder and first boss and kai means organization or society. It is a member of the Kantō-Shinboku-kai (Kanto social gathering). Sumiyoshi-kai: 住吉会 Minato, Tokyo: 1992 Sumiyoshi means the name of place. It is a member of the Kantō-Shinboku-kai. Kudō-kai V 五代目工藤會 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka: 1992

  8. Japanese exonyms - Wikipedia

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    Japanese exonyms are the names of places in the Japanese language that differ from the name given in the place's dominant language.. While Japanese names of places that are not derived from the Chinese language generally tend to represent the endonym or the English exonym as phonetically accurately as possible, the Japanese terms for some place names are obscured, either because the name was ...

  9. Kai (entertainer, born 1994) - Wikipedia

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    Kai was born on January 14, 1994, [3] in Suncheon, South Jeolla Province, South Korea, as the youngest member of his family, with two older sisters. [4] [unreliable source?] Despite his parents initially wanting him to learn Taekwondo and the piano, Kai began to train in ballet while in third grade after watching The Nutcracker, [5] and started jazz dancing when he was eight years old in the ...