Xia

Xia (Hsia in Wade–Giles) may refer to:

Chinese history

• Xia dynasty (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC), the first orthodox dynasty in Chinese history
• Xia (Sixteen Kingdoms) (407–431), a Xiongnu-led dynasty
• Xia (617–621), a state founded by Dou Jiande near the end of the Sui dynasty
• Western Xia (1038–1227), a Tangut-led dynasty
• Eastern Xia (1215–1233), a Jurchen-led dynasty
• Ming Xia (1362–1371), a short-lived dynasty that existed during the late Yuan dynasty period

Other uses

• Huaxia or Xia, an ancient ethnic group later known as the Han Chinese
• Xia (surname), a Chinese surname
• Xia (philosophy), a Chinese philosophy similar (but not identical) to the chivalrous code of European knights
• Xia County, Shanxi, China
• Xia Vigor (born 2009), British-Filipino actress
• Xiafs, a file system developed for the Linux operating system together with the Ext2 file system
• Xia class submarine, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine
• XIA, the ICAO Code for Irving Oil, Canada
• XIA (Junsu), a Korean pop artist also known as Xiah and Junsu
• Xia, the former stage name of Korean pop artist Jang Jin Young, formerly of RaNiA
• Xia, a place in the fictional Bionicle universe
• Xia, a hero or knight-errant in Chinese fiction, see wuxia

See also

• Sia (disambiguation)