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Xia
Xia (夏) details several meanings in the Chinese language and the History of China:
- The season of summer
- Xia (philosophy) is a Chinese philosophy similar (but not identical) to the chivalrous code of European knights.
- A Chinese family name
- The Xia Dynasty
- The majority ethnic group later known as the Han Chinese after the Han Dynasty. Refer to Huaxia.
- The "Empire" of Xia of the Hunnic Tiefu during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms in China.
- The Xia regime by Dou Jiande during the turbulent transition from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty.
- The Western Xia of the Tanguts.
- In computers, Xia file system was a file system developed for the Linux operating system together with the Ext2 file system.
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