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Haidilao (海底捞)

Haidilao (海底捞) is a Chinese Sichuan-style hotpot restaurant chain founded in 1994 by Zhang Yong, known for free manicures and elaborate service for queuing customers.

Haidilao International Holding

Haidilao International Holding is a restaurant group that runs the Haidilao hot pot chain, founded in Jianyang, Sichuan, in 1994 by Zhang Yong and listed in Hong Kong in 2018.

Haidong D. Dong

Haidong D. Dong is a physician-scientist and Professor of Immunology at Mayo Clinic, best known for discovering B7-H1 and showing tumor-cell B7-H1 promotes T-cell apoptosis.

Haidong Diqu

Haidong Diqu (海东地区, Haidong Prefecture) was a Qinghai prefecture east of Qinghai Lake, established 1978 and converted into prefecture-level Haidong City in 2013, seat Ledu, covering the Hehuang valley.

Haidou

Haidou (海斗号) is a Chinese hybrid underwater robot built by the Shenyang Institute of Automation for exploring hadal trenches, which reached 10,767 meters in the Mariana Trench in 2016.

Haiduti

Haiduti, also known as Father and Son, is an unfinished long poem by the Bulgarian poet Hristo Botev, probably begun around 1866 and first published in 1871.

Haier (海尔)

Haier (海尔), formally Haier Group Corporation, is a Chinese multinational home appliance maker founded in Qingdao in 1984 by Zhang Ruimin, ranked the world's number-one major appliances brand.

Haier New Energy

海尔新能源 (Haier New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese distributed solar and energy-storage company under Haier Group, headquartered in Qingdao since 2022 and preparing for an initial public offering.

Haifa (חיפה)

Haifa (חיפה; Arabic حيفا) is Israel's third-largest city, a mixed Jewish-Arab Mediterranean port city on Mount Carmel, capital of Haifa District, home to one of Israel's two biggest commercial ports and the Baha'i World Center.

Haifa District

Haifa District (מחוז חיפה) is one of six Israeli administrative districts, containing Haifa and Hadera sub-districts, about 1.15 million residents, and the country's highest housing affordability and hospital bed provision.

Haifa educational zoo

Haifa Educational Zoo (גן החיות הלימודי חיפה), the Louis Ariel Goldschmidt zoo, is a municipal zoo founded in 1949 in Haifa's Carmel Center, with over 100 species, EAZA and WAZA membership, school programs, and a history of welfare controversies.

Haifa power station

Haifa power station (תחנת הכוח חיפה) is a natural-gas-fired power station in Haifa, Israel, owned by the Israel Electric Corporation and generating electricity since 1935.

Haifa Wehbe

Haifa Wehbe (هيفاء وهبي), Lebanese pop singer and actress born 1976 in Mahrouna; Miss South Lebanon at 16, breakthrough album Baddi Eesh (2005), albums through Mega Haifa (2025), and recurring controversies.

Haifan Lin

Haifan Lin is a stem cell biologist at Yale School of Medicine, founding director of the Yale Stem Cell Center, known for discovering the Piwi gene family and piRNAs.

Haifū Yanagidaru

Haifū Yanagidaru (誹風柳多留) is a Japanese anthology of senryū, humorous seventeen-syllable verses on human nature and Edo society, published in 167 volumes between 1765 and 1840 and considered the founding collection of the senryū genre.

Haig H. Kazazian

Haig H. Kazazian (1937–2022) was an American human geneticist at Johns Hopkins and Penn who pioneered DNA-based prenatal diagnosis of hemoglobin disorders and showed that transposable elements cause human disease.

Haiga

Haiga (俳画) is a Japanese painting style combining a minimal ink image, haiku, and calligraphy on one surface, arising in the 17th century with Matsuo Bashō.

Haigerloch atomic pile

The Haigerloch atomic pile, also called the Haigerloch research reactor, was the German uranium project's last experimental nuclear reactor, built in early 1945 and dismantled that April.

Haight-Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury: San Francisco neighborhood at Haight and Ashbury streets, center of the 1967 Summer of Love; Victorian houses, Haight Street retail corridor, about 21,800 residents.

Haiguo tuzhi

Haiguo tuzhi (海国图志, Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms) is a Chinese geographical and strategic compendium of the world compiled by Wei Yuan and first printed at Yangzhou in 1843.

Haihe Biopharma

Haihe Biopharma (海和药物) is a Shanghai-based oncology biopharmaceutical company founded in 2011 by Ding Jian, best known for gumarontinib, China's first approved first-line treatment for MET-mutant lung cancer.

Haijie Medical

Haijie Medical (海杰亚) is a Beijing-based medical device company founded in 2010 that makes minimally invasive tumor ablation equipment, best known for the Kangbo Dao combined cryo-thermal ablation system.

Haijin (maritime prohibition)

The haijin (海禁) was the Ming dynasty's maritime prohibition, a sea ban confining legal overseas trade to tribute missions, enforced by officials like Zhu Wan and partially relaxed in 1567.

Haikai no renga

Haikai no renga (俳諧の連歌), usually shortened to haikai, is a comic form of Japanese renga that admitted wordplay, vernacular language, and common-life motifs, flourishing in the Edo period.

Haikaiss

Haikaiss is a Brazilian rap group from São Paulo's north zone, founded in 2006, considered among Brazil's most successful rap groups, with hits like "RAP LORD" and "Pouca Pausa."

Haikou (海口)

Haikou (海口), the Coconut City, is the capital of Hainan province on northern Hainan Island; a 3,119 km² city of 2.3 million, core of the Hainan Free Trade Port, with Meilan Airport and four districts.

Haiku

Haiku (俳句): Japanese 17-mora verse form from the renga hokku, named by Masaoka Shiki; uses kigo and kireji, and spread globally via Couchoud, Blyth, and the Imagists.

Haiku (operating system)

Haiku, formerly OpenBeOS, is a free and open-source desktop operating system that re-implements BeOS. Started in 2001 by Michael Phipps, it remains in beta, with R1/beta6 released in 2026.

Haiku in English

Haiku in English adapts the Japanese 17-on, 5-7-5 form with kigo and kireji into English; because English syllables are longer, most contemporary English haiku run 10-14 syllables or use accentual forms rather than strict 5-7-5.

Haiku Stairs

Haʻikū Stairs (Stairway to Heaven), a 3,922-step WWII-era Navy ladder on Oʻahu's Koʻolau Range, closed since 1987; dismantling began 2024 but is stalled by Friends of Haʻikū Stairs lawsuits.