# Kei

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**Kei** or **KEI** may refer to:

## People

- [Kei (given name)](/source/Kei_(given_name))
- Kei, Cantonese for [Ji](/source/Ji_(surname)) (姫)
- Kei, Cantonese for [Qi](/source/Qi_(surname)) (奇, 祁, 亓)
- [Shō Kei](/source/Sh%C5%8D_Kei) (1700–1752), king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom
- [Kei (singer)](/source/Kei_(singer)) (born 1995), stage name of South Korean singer Kim Ji-yeon
- [Princess Kei](/source/Princess_Kei) (Keihime) of Japan
- [Kei Nishikori](/source/Kei_Nishikori), Japanese professional tennis player

## Automobiles

- [Kei car](/source/Kei_car), a Japanese category of small automobiles - [Suzuki Kei](/source/Suzuki_Kei), a kei car produced by Suzuki between 1998 and 2009
- [Kei truck](/source/Kei_truck), a Japanese category of small pickup trucks

## In fiction

- [xxxHolic: Kei](/source/XxxHolic:_Kei), the second season of the anime
- Sir Kei or [Sir Kay](/source/Sir_Kay), a character in Arthurian legend
- Kei, a [character in *Akira* media](/source/Yamagata_(Akira))
- Kei, a [character in *Dirty Pair* media](/source/Dirty_Pair#Lovely_Angels)
- Kei, a [character in the *Ape Escape* universe](/source/List_of_Ape_Escape_characters#Satoru)
- Kei, a [fictional country in *Twelve Kingdoms* media](/source/List_of_kingdoms_in_Twelve_Kingdoms#Kei)
- Kei, a character in *[Moon Child](/source/Moon_Child_(2003_film))*
- Kei Nagase, a [character in the *Ace Combat* universe](/source/Ace_Combat_5:_The_Unsung_War#Characters)
- Kei, short for Keiichiro, a character in *[Wangan Midnight](/source/Wangan_Midnight)* and [Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune](/source/Wangan_Midnight_Maximum_Tune)

## KEI

- [Knowledge Ecology International](/source/Knowledge_Ecology_International), dealing with issues of intellectual property
- [Knowledge Economic Index](/source/Knowledge_Economic_Index), on knowledge economy
- [Keyword Effectiveness Index](/source/Keyword_Effectiveness_Index) for a web site
- [Kinetic Energy Interceptor](/source/Kinetic_Energy_Interceptor), former planned American missile defense program
- [Keithley Instruments](/source/Keithley_Instruments), NYSE symbol

## Other uses

- Kei or [Kai Islands](/source/Kai_Islands), part of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia - [Kei language](/source/Kei_language)
- kei(*x*), one of the [Kelvin functions](/source/Kelvin_functions#kei(''x''))
- [Kei school](/source/Kei_school) of Buddhist sculpture, Japan
- [Kei Rail](/source/Kei_Rail), a South African rail project
- [Kei cricket team](/source/Kei_cricket_team), South Africa
- Kei, subgroup of the *[Kugyō](/source/Kugy%C5%8D)* in the Japanese pre-Meiji court
- [Great Kei River](/source/Great_Kei_River), in South Africa
- a style in [Japanese street fashion](/source/Japanese_street_fashion) or a Japanese pop subculture, e.g. [Visual kei](/source/Visual_kei)
- [Kei (ritual gong)](/source/Kei_(ritual_gong)), a Japanese musical instrument

## See also

- [Kai (disambiguation)](/source/Kai_(disambiguation))
- [KIE (disambiguation)](/source/KIE_(disambiguation))

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