Ni
Encyclopedia
Geography
- Ni River, a river of New Caledonia
- Ni River (Virginia), a tributary of the Mattaponi River
- Mount NiMount NiMount Ni is a hill about 30 km to the southeast of the city of Qufu in Shandong Province, China. The hill is culturally significant because it is traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Confucius...
, a hill in Shandong, China
Letters
- Ni (kana)Ni (kana)に, in hiragana, or ニ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana in two...
, romanisation of the Japanese kana に and ニ - Ni (letter), or Nu, a letter in the Greek alphabet: uppercase Ν, lowercase ν
Names
- NíNi- Geography :* Ni River, a river of New Caledonia* Ni River , a tributary of the Mattaponi River* Mount Ni, a hill in Shandong, China- Letters :* Ni , romanisation of the Japanese kana に and ニ...
, a surname prefix from the shortened form of the Irish word for a daughter - Fu-Te NiFu-Te NiFu-Te Ni is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. Before joining the Tigers, Ni was a professional baseball player from Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League...
(born 1982), a Major League Baseball pitcher from Tawain - Ni HuaNi HuaNi Hua is one of China's top chess grandmasters and is the national team captain. In 2003, he became China's 15th Grandmaster at the age of 19. On April 2008, Ni Hua and Bu Xiangzhi both became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue...
(born 1983), a Chinese chess grandmaster - Wei-Tou NiWei-Tou NiNi Wei-Tou is a Taiwanese physicist, who graduated from the Department of Physics of National Taiwan University , and got his PhD of Physics & Mathematics from California Institute of Technology...
(born 1944), a Taiwanese physicist
Other uses
- NickelNickelNickel is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile...
, chemical element called Ni - Ni, or Nishada, the seventh note of the Indian musical scale in ragaRagaA raga is one of the melodic modes used in Indian classical music.It is a series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is made...
- Knights who say NiKnights who say NiThe Knights who say Ni are a band of knights from the comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, feared for the manner in which they utter the word "ni"...
, characters from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail