Aoi
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Aoi may refer to:
- Ao (color)Ao (color)Ao is a Japanese color word that includes what English-speakers would call blue and green. For example, in Japan, green traffic lights are described as , and blue skies are described as , as in aozora bunko....
, a JapaneseJapanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
color word (noun)- Aoi, the Japanese adjectival form of ao
- Aoi, the Japanese name for various plants used in Japanese heraldry, including the hollyhockHollyhockAlcea , commonly known as hollyhocks, is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae. Most species are native to southwest and central Asia, although a few are native to southeast Europe or Egypt...
and the wild gingerAsarumAsarum is a genus of plants in the birthwort family Aristolochiaceae, commonly known as Wild ginger.- Description :...
(Asarum caulescens)- Aoi MatsuriAoi MatsuriThe , or "Hollyhock Festival," is one of the three main annual festivals held in Kyoto, Japan, the other two being the Festival of the Ages and the Gion Festival. It is a festival of the two Kamo shrines in the north of the city, Shimogamo Shrine and Kamigamo Shrine...
, a hollyhock festival that takes place annually on 15 May in KyotoKyotois a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...
, Japan
- Aoi Matsuri
- Aoi (trigraph), the three letters "aoi"
- Aoi WardAoi-ku, Shizuokais one of three wards of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, located in the northern part of the city. Aoi-ku borders Suruga-ku in the south and Shimizu-ku to the southeast; the west faces Shimada, Fujieda and Kawanehon and its northern tip extends into the border between Nagano Prefecture and Yamanashi...
of Shizuoka CityShizuoka, Shizuokais the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in terms of both population and area. It became one of Japan's 19 "designated cities" in 2005.-Geography:...
, Shizuoka PrefectureShizuoka Prefectureis a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Shizuoka.- History :Shizuoka prefecture was formed from the former Tōtōmi, Suruga and Izu provinces.The area was the home of the first Tokugawa Shogun...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
Science and technology
- AND-OR-InvertAND-OR-InvertAND-OR-Invert logic and AOI gates are two-level compound logic functions constructed from the combination of one or more AND gates followed by a NOR gate. Construction of AOI cells is particularly efficient using CMOS technology where the total number of transistor gates can be compared to the...
, a Boolean logic gate in electrical engineering - Angle of incidenceAngle of incidenceAngle of incidence is a measure of deviation of something from "straight on", for example:* in the approach of a ray to a surface, or* the angle at which the wing or horizontal tail of an airplane is installed on the fuselage, measured relative to the axis of the fuselage.-Optics:In geometric...
, angle from "straight on" (angle from perpendicular or normal) - Arctic oscillationArctic oscillationThe Arctic oscillation or Northern Annular Mode/Northern Hemisphere Annular Mode is an index of the dominant pattern of non-seasonal sea-level pressure variations north of 20N latitude, and it is characterized by pressure anomalies of one sign in the Arctic with the opposite anomalies centered...
index, a measure of atmospheric pressure changes in the Arctic - Art of IllusionArt of IllusionArt of Illusion is a software package used for 3D modeling, texturing, ray tracing, and otherwise rendering computer generated imagery stills or animations ....
, an open-source 3D graphics rendering software package - Automated optical inspectionAutomated optical inspectionAutomated optical inspection is an automated visual inspection of a wide range of products, such as printed circuit boards , LCDs, transistors, automotive parts, lids and labels on product packages or agricultural products...
, manufacturing test system that uses optical vision to identify defects during the manufacturing of a PCBoard - Add On Instruction, a complex programming instruction used in industrial logic controllers
Organizations
- Arab Organization for IndustrializationArab Organization for IndustrializationThe Arab Organization for Industrialization is an Egypt-based Arab military organisation established in 1975 by Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to supervise the collective development of the Arab defence industry. Following a gradual deterioration in relations between the...
, an Egyptian defense manufacturing consortium - Association of Illustrators, a non-profit trade association for illustrator’s rights and professional standards (U.K.)
- AOI Records, a record label created by De La SoulDe La SoulDe La Soul is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York. The band is best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres...
- Africa Orientale Italiana, an Italian colony in Africa
People
Aoi (葵, 青井, 蒼井) can be both a given name and a surname in Japan- Aoi MiyazakiAoi Miyazakiis a Japanese actress. She is best known for her pure image and roles such as in Nana and Virgin Snow. Her brother Masaru Miyazaki is an actor, and they starred together in the film Hatsukoi. She married Sosuke Takaoka on June 15, 2007, her partner since she was fifteen.-Career:Miyazaki started...
(born 1985), Japanese actress - Aoi TadaAoi Tadais a Japanese singer-songwriter and former voice actress and musical actress. She formerly belonged to Gekidan Himawari. Her nickname is "Mamoru Tada".Her most noted voice role is that of Cowboy Bebops Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV...
(born 1981), Japanese voice actor - Aoi TeshimaAoi Teshimais a Japanese singer and voice actor.-Career:While Aoi Teshima went to C&S music academy in Fukuoka, she began a music career as an amateur in 2003...
(born 1987), singer - Sora AoiSora Aoiis a Japanese AV idol, nude model, and media personality. In addition to being a multiple award winning actress in the AV field, she has also attained mainstream media recognition.- Early life :...
(born 1983), Japanese adult idol - Minori AoiMinori Aoiis a Japanese gravure and AV idol.-Debut and early AVs:Born in Tokyo on March 28, 1980, Minori Aoi was active in tennis during Junior High School and High School. She made her AV debut in the February 1999 release for the Media Station Cosmos Plan label, Pure Heart . Her first video was a difficult...
(born 1980), Japanese adult idol, vocalist of Japanese rock band AyabieAyabie, was a Japanese visual kei band signed to the label Tokuma Japan Communications. Their music consisted of a wide variety of sounds and moods, ranging from catchy and upbeat to heavy and hard-edged punk songs. Many of the band's costumes were designed by ID Japan or H. Naoto... - Aoi (葵), a Japanese guitarist of the band The Gazette
- Aoi (Japanese singer)Aoi (Japanese singer)Aoi, born on the 4th June 1984, is a Japanese singer-songwriter.-Biography: Aoi started to be famous thanks to BOUNTY , a band he created with KAZUYA , whom he met at their management company...
(born 1984), Japanese singer - Aoi (Japanese actress and fashion model) (born 15 February 1989), Japanese actress and fashion model
Characters
- Aoi Kiriya, a character in Kare First LoveKare First Loveis a Japanese shōjo manga series by Kaho Miyasaka. It was originally serialized in Shōjo Comic from March 2002 to August 2004, and the individual chapters were published in ten tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan from September 2002 to December 2004...
- Aoi Matsubara, a character from ToHeart
- Aoi no UeAoi no Ueis a fictional character in The Tale of Genji . Daughter of the Minister of the Left and Genji’s first principal wife, she marries Genji when she is sixteen and he only twelve. Proud and distant to her husband, Aoi is constantly aware of the age difference between them and very much hurt by...
, a wife of Hikaru Genji in the classic Tale of Genji - Aoi Umenokouji, a combatant in the Virtua Fighter video game series
- Aoi (Naruto), a minor villain in the manga Naruto
- Aoi Senou, a character in the My-HiMEMy-HiMEis an anime series, created by Sunrise. Directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, the series originally premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from September 2004 to March 2005...
and My-OtomeMy-Otomeis an anime series created by Sunrise. Directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, it is a spinoff of My-HiME anime series and as such My-Otome takes place in a new setting with new main characters....
series - Mitsuru Aoi, a character in the LegendzLegendzis a role-playing game, an anime, a toy, card game, and manga series.The manga is illustrated by Makoto Haruno and the story is by Rin Hirai . The manga was published in Shueisha's Monthly Shōnen Jump in Japan, and the manga is published in English by Viz Media...
manga - Takuma Aoi, a character in Battle Royale II: Requiem
- Jun Aoi, a character in Martian Successor Nadesico
- Laughing Man (Ghost in the Shell)Laughing Man (Ghost in the Shell)The is a fictional character in the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. His voice actor is Kōichi Yamadera, while he is voiced in Bandai Entertainment's English dub by Steven Blum.-Background:...
s alias, a character in the 2002 Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. anime - Sena Aoi,a character from the visual novel and anime Chaos;HeadChaos;Head, stylized as ChäoS;HEAd, is a Japanese visual novel developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus that was released on April 25, 2008 for the PC. A port of the game, named , for the Xbox 360 console was released on February 26, 2009. The game is described by the development team as a...
- Aoi Kimidori, a character from the anime and manga series Dr. SlumpDr. Slumpis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was serialized in Shueisha's anthology comic Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1980 to 1984 which were collected into 18 tankōbon volumes...
- Aoi Sakuraba, a character in Ai Yori Aoshi
- Aoi Futaba, a character in You're Under Arrest!
- Aoi Housen, a character in Infinite Ryvius
- Aoi Tōsaka, a character in Fate/zero
- Nagisa Aoi (渚砂), the main character of the Strawberry Panic! anime series
- Aoi, a minor character from KekkaishiKekkaishiis a supernatural manga series written and illustrated by Yellow Tanabe. It was serialized in Japan by Shogakukan in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday from 2003 to 2011 , and licensed for an English-language release in North America by Viz Media. It was adapted as a fifty-two episode anime series by...
- Aoi Kunieda, one of the major characters in "Beelzebub (manga)Beelzebub (manga)is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Ryūhei Tamura that serializes in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. Beelzebub was first published as a one-shot by Tamura in Weekly Shōnen Jumps 2008 volume 37-38, where it won the fourth Gold Future Cup, then it was serialized on the same...
" - Aoi Kurashiki, A.K.A Santa. A character in the game 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doorsis an adventure game developed by Chunsoft and published in Japan by Spike on December 10, 2009, and in North America by Aksys Games on November 16, 2010. The game's design team was led by Kotaro Uchikoshi, who is also the writer of the acclaimed visual novel Ever 17: The Out of Infinity...
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Other uses
- Ancona AirportAncona AirportAncona Airport or Ancona-Falconara Airport is an airport serving Ancona, a city in the Marche region of central Italy. The airport is located approximately west of Ancona, in Falconara Marittima...
's IATA code, near Ancona, Italy - All OrdinariesAll OrdinariesEstablished in January 1980, the All Ordinaries is the oldest index of shares in Australia, so called because it contains nearly all ordinary shares listed on the Australian Securities Exchange...
, the primary index of the Australian securities market - Articles of IncorporationArticles of IncorporationThe Articles of Incorporation are the primary rules governing the management of a corporation in the United States and Canada, and are filed with a state or other regulatory agency.An equivalent term for LLCs in the United States is the Articles of Organization...
, the rules governing a corporation (U.S. and Canada) - Art Official Intelligence, a series of albums by De La Soul
- Areas of Interaction, an element of the IB Middle Years Program (education).