Di

Di or DI may refer to:

Arts and media

Music

  • Di, a tone in the solfège ascending chromatic scale existing between Do and Re
  • dizi (instrument) or di, a Chinese transverse flute
  • D.I. (band), a punk band from Southern California

Other media

Businesses and organisations

Education

Natural sciences

People

Ethnic groups

  • Di (Five Barbarians) (), an ethnic group that overran northern China during the Sixteen Kingdoms period
  • Beidi or Northern Di (), ethnic groups living in northern China during the Zhou Dynasty

Individuals

Technology

Religion

  • di (), a Chinese word employed in
    • the temple names of deified Chinese emperors
    • Shangdi (Chinese: 上帝, lit. "Lord on High"), the Chinese name for the supreme sky god either in native Chinese beliefs or in translation of monotheistic faiths like Christianity and Islam
  • di (Chinese concept) (), the concept of "earth" in traditional Chinese cosmologies
  • di, an irregular Latin masculine plural of deus ("god", "deity")

Other uses

See also

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