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Kunikida Doppo
Kunikida Doppo (国木田独歩), real name Tetsuo, was a Japanese poet, novelist, and journalist of the Meiji period, best known for the prose piece "Musashino" and for being called a forerunner of Japanese naturalism.
Kuninda kingdom
The Kuninda kingdom (कुणिंद गण) was an ancient Indian republic in the Central Himalayas, striking silver and copper coins from about 200 BCE to 200 CE under king Amoghabhuti.
Kunio Okuda
Kunio Okuda (奥田 邦雄, 1921–2003) was a Japanese hepatologist at Chiba University, a pioneer in liver cancer research and creator of the Okuda staging system.
Kunioki Mima
Kunioki Mima (三間 圀興, 1945–2025) was a Japanese plasma physicist who co-discovered the Hasegawa–Mima equation, directed Osaka University's Institute of Laser Engineering, and won the Hannes Alfvén and Edward Teller prizes.
Kunisada (Mercurian crater)
Kunisada is a large impact crater on Mercury, 241 km wide, named for the Japanese woodblock artist Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞); the IAU approved the name in 2009 from MESSENGER imagery.
Kunitada Shimotohno
Kunitada Shimotohno (下遠野 邦忠) is a Japanese molecular biologist whose Tokyo laboratory cloned the Japanese hepatitis C virus genome in 1990, work cited in the 2020 Nobel Prize background.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is Capcom's 2024 Kagura action-strategy game, blending sword combat with tower defense as Soh protects the maiden Yoshiro from the Seethe on Mount Kafuku.
Kunitz domain
Kunitz domain (BPTI/Kunitz-type protease inhibitor domain): ~60-residue alpha+beta fold with three conserved disulfide bridges; canonical reversible serine protease inhibition via a P1-residue reactive loop; also found in venom ion-channel toxins and the drug ecallantide.
Kunjali Marakkar
Kunjali Marakkar (Kunhali Marakkar) was the hereditary title of four Muslim naval admirals serving the Zamorin of Calicut, who led Malabar's naval resistance against the Portuguese from 1502 to 1600; Kunjali IV was beheaded at Goa in 1600.
Kunjali Marakkar III
Kunjali Marakkar III (കുഞ്ഞാലി മരയ്ക്കാർ), also known as Pattu Marakkar, was the third of four hereditary admirals who fought the Portuguese for the Zamorin of Calicut from 1571 to 1595.
Kunjini
Kunjini (कुञ्जिनी) is a Nepali khandakavya, a short narrative poem by Laxmi Prasad Devkota written around 1945, telling of Kunjini's love for the soldier Gore and her forced marriage.
Kunjiramayanam
Kunjiramayanam (കുഞ്ഞിരാമായണം) is a 2015 Malayalam comedy-drama, Basil Joseph's directorial debut, starring Vineeth and Dhyan Sreenivasan as feuding cousins in the fictional cursed village of Desam; an Onam superhit.
Kunku (कुंकू)
Kunku (कुंकू), also Duniya Na Mane, is a 1937 bilingual Marathi-Hindi social film by V. Shantaram at Prabhat, based on Narayan Hari Apte's novel Na Patnari Goshta, starring Shanta Apte as a young bride resisting marriage to an old widower.
Kunkubey Fluctus
Kunkubey Fluctus is a 350-km-wide lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus at 50S 207E, IAU-approved in 2000 and named for a Yakutian/Sakha goddess, wife of god Yuryung.
Kunkumadi Taila
Kunkumadi Taila (Kumkumadi Tailam, Kuṅkumādi taila) is a saffron-led Ayurvedic facial oil in sesame base, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India for complexion enhancement; small pilot trials report reduced facial melanin and erythema.
Kunlavut Vitidsarn (กุลวุฒิ วิทิตศานต์)
Kunlavut Vitidsarn (กุลวุฒิ วิทิตศานต์), Thai men's singles badminton player; 2023 world champion, Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallist, and Thailand's first Asian Games men's singles badminton gold medallist (2026).
Kunle Adeyemi
Kunle Adeyemi (full name Solomon Adekunle Adeyemi, born 1959 in Ondo State, Nigeria) is a Nigerian visual artist and printmaker known for his Paintograph and Paintocast techniques.
Kunlun Linea
Kunlun Linea is an IAU-approved 180 km linea (elongate marking) on Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon, centered at 45°N, 308°W. Formerly Kun Lun Chasma, renamed August 6, 2010, and named for the mythological Chinese mountain of the immortals and Xiwangmu.
Kunlun Mountains (昆仑山脉)
Kunlun Mountains (昆仑山脉), also Kuen-lun, form the ~2,500 km northern wall of the Tibetan Plateau between the Tarim Basin and northwest Tibet, rising to 7,719 m, with a long-lived Triassic orogen, the 1,600 km Kunlun Fault, and major glaciers.
Kunlun Tech
Kunlun Tech, also known as Kunlun Wanwei, is a Chinese internet company listed in Shenzhen in 2015 that pivoted from games and Opera to the Tiangong (Skywork) large language models.
Kunming
Kunming (昆明), capital of Yunnan province on Dianchi Lake, formerly Yunnanfu; a national historical and cultural city and transport hub to South and Southeast Asia, known for mild climate, clean air, and Dianchi Lake water-pollution challenges.
Kunming Botanical Garden
Kunming Botanical Garden (昆明植物园), founded 1938 under the Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, conserves Southwest Chinese plants ex situ, holding 602 national key protected species, Fuligong greenhouses, and a Lijiang alpine campus.
Kunming Changshui International Airport
Kunming Changshui International Airport (昆明长水国际机场, IATA: KMG) is the main airport serving Kunming, capital of Yunnan in southwest China. Opened in 2012, it replaced Wujiaba and handled a record 49.69 million passengers in 2025.
Kunming Zoo
Kunming Zoo (昆明动物园), also called Yuantong Mountain Zoo, is a public urban zoo in Kunming, Yunnan, China, founded in 1953 on Yuantong Mountain; it holds over 200 species, five Yunnan signature animal populations, Ming wall remnants, and the 2024 monkey-cat controversy.
KunMo Chung (정건모)
KunMo Chung (정건모), also written Chung Kun-Mo, is a South Korean nuclear energy engineer, born 1939, who wrote KAIST's founding proposal and twice served as Minister of Science and Technology.
Kunnattur Mound
Kunnattur Mound, also spelled Kundrathur, is a megalithic cist and cairn burial site in Tamil Nadu, India, excavated by ASI's V.D. Krishnasamy in 1955-58 and centrally protected as monument 2399.
Kuno Becker
Kuno Becker (Eduardo Kuno Becker Paz), Mexican actor and director born 1978 in Mexico City; telenovela star turned film lead, famous as Santiago Muñez in the Goal! trilogy and as the Spanish voice of Lightning McQueen in Cars.
Kunoichi (くノ一)
Kunoichi (くノ一), literally ninja slang for "woman" from decomposing 女, now means female ninja. The 1676 Bansenshūkai records a kunoichi technique of using female infiltrators, but trained female ninja are a postwar fiction.
Kunon the Sorcerer Can See (魔術師クノンは見えている)
Kunon the Sorcerer Can See (魔術師クノンは見えている) is a Japanese fantasy series by Umikaze Minamino and Laruha about a blind boy creating eyes with water magic; it began on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2021, became a Kadokawa Books light novel and La-na manga, and aired as a 13-episode Platinum Vision anime in January 2026.
Kunpeng 920
Kunpeng 920 (鲲鹏920) is a 64-bit Arm-based server processor developed by Huawei's HiSilicon division and launched in January 2019 with TaiShan servers, using Huawei's custom TaiShan cores.