RI

RI or ri may refer to:

People

• Ri, a common Korean surname, a variant romanization of Lee
• Rí (rig), an ancient Gaelic word meaning "king"
• Ri (pronoun), a gender-neutral pronoun in Esperanto
• RI, an initialism of Rex Imperator (king-emperor) or Regina Imperatrix (queen-empress), used by those British monarchs who were rulers of both the United Kingdom and the Indian Empire

Places

• Ri (administrative division), an administrative unit in both North Korea and South Korea
• Ri, Orne, a commune of the Orne département in France
• RI, abbreviation of either the Republic of Indonesia or, in the Indonesian language, Republik Indonesia
• Rhode Island, a state within the US (postal abbreviation RI)
• Rijeka, city in Croatia

Arts and media

• Ri, an augmented second in solfege, used in music education
• Ri, a representation of the second svara in Indian classical music
• Russia Insider, a pro-Kremlin news and propaganda website

Businesses and organizations

• Raffles Institution, a school in Singapore
• Refugees International, an international humanitarian organization
• Rehabilitation International, an international disability rights organization
• Rotary International, international organization of business and professional leaders focused on non-political and non-sectarian humanitarian service
• Royal Institution of Great Britain, an organisation devoted to scientific education and research
• Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, a society in the Federation of British Artists
• Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (reporting mark RI)
• Tigerair Mandala (IATA airline designator RI)
• Italian Radicals, a political party in Italy

Science, technology, and mathematics

• Ri (prefix symbol), a binary unit prefix symbol
• Referential integrity, a database concept
• Refractive index of an optical medium (in physics/optics) is a number that describes how light propagates through that medium
• Arterial resistivity index, a measure of pulsatile blood flow
• Ring Indicator, a signal in the RS232 serial communications standard
• Rhombicosahedron, a polyhedron, by Bowers acronym
• Residual income, a financial profitability measure of a company
• Reputation Institute, a research and insights company that analyzes the reputation of corporations and places
• Rapid intensification, a phenomenon in which the wind speed of a tropical cyclone increases dramatically in a short period of time
• Research infrastructure, national or international infrastructure open to scientists (e.g. CERN)
• Research institute, an establishment founded for doing research

Other uses

• Ri (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
• Ri (kana), a Romanization of the Japanese kana り and リ
• Ri, a unit of measurement in Japan and Korea related to the Chinese li
• Rock Island District, a commuter rail line on Chicago's Metra (abbreviated as RI on maps and schedules)

See also

• All pages with titles containing ris
• All pages with titles containing ri
• Isaac ben Samuel, known as the Ri ha-Zaken, a 12th-century French tosafist and Biblical commentator
• Riri (disambiguation)
• Ris (disambiguation)
• IR (disambiguation)