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Xfce Xfce () is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. Its configuration is entirely mouse-driven; the configuration files are hidden from the casual user.
Xfire Xfire is a freeware instant messaging service targeted toward gamers, that also serves as a game server browser. Its uniqueness lies in its ability to detect what video game a particular contact is running and allowing IMs to be sent and received from inside the game in question, eliminating the need to minimize the game window.
Xfm Xfm is a brand of commercial radio stations focused on current and unsigned alternative music and owned by GCap Media in the United Kingdom. Xfm was created in 1997 in London, but has since expanded to several stations.
XF-12 Rainbow The XF-12 Rainbow was a four-engine, all-metal prototype monoplane designed by the Republic Aviation Company in the late 1940s. Like most large airplanes of the era, it used radial engines—in this case, the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 "Wasp Major"—to drive propellers.
XF-85 Goblin The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin was a fighter aircraft, conceived during World War II and intended to be carried in the bomb bay of the giant Convair B-36 bomber as a defensive "parasite fighter." Because of its small and rotund appearance, it was nicknamed "The Flying Egg.
XF10F Jaguar The Grumman XF10F Jaguar was a prototype swing-wing fighter aircraft offered to the US Navy in the early 1950s. Although it never entered service, it pointed the way towards the later, abortive General Dynamics/Grumman F-111B and later towards the F-14 Tomcat.
XF2R Dark Shark The Ryan XF2R Dark Shark was an experimental aircraft built for the United States Navy that combined turboprop and turbojet propulsion. It was based on Ryan's earlier FR Fireball but replaced the Fireball's piston engine with a General Electric T-31 turboprop engine driving a huge 4-bladed Hamilton propeller.
XFA XFA stands for XML Forms Architecture, a family of XML specifications that was suggested and developed by JetForm to enhance the processing of web forms. It is an improvement to XML, which is in turn an improvement to simple HTML forms, which don't allow more advanced types of content management.
XFire (UK TV Series) X Fire, meaning 'Crossfire', was an UK TV programme which involved a team consisting of 6 players armed with paintball guns to complete challenges, such as, defusing a bomb or rescuing hostages while trying not to get shot by the 'Grunts'. The 'Grunts' were the enemies, whose objective was to stop the team completing the challenges by shooting them with paintballs.
XForms XForms is an XML format for the specification of a data processing model for XML data and user interface(s) for the XML data, such as web forms. XForms was designed to be the next generation of HTML / XHTML forms, but is generic enough that it can also be used in a standalone manner or with presentation languages other than XHTML to describe a user interface and a set of common data manipulation tasks.
XFP transceiver The XFP (10 Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable) is a hot-swappable, protocol-independent optical transceiver, typically operating at 850nm, 1310nm or 1550nm, for 10 Gigabit per second SONET/SDH, Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet and other applications, including DWDM links. It includes digital diagnostics similar to SFF-8472 but more extensive, that provide a robust management tool.
XFPS 360 An adapter made for the XBOX 360 which allows mouse and keyboard input (a popular method of playing first-person shooter games) to be used with console games. It also allows use of a Playstation 2 controller on the Xbox 360 among many other features.
XFree86 Acceleration Architecture In the X Window System, XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) is a driver architecture to make a video card's 2D hardware acceleration available to the X server. It was written by Harm Hanemaayer in 1996 and first released in XFree86 version 3.
XFree86 Modeline A Modeline is a configuration line in the XFree86 configuration file (XF86Config) that provides information to the X server about a connected computer monitor or television and how to drive it at a specified display resolution.
XFX XFX is a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-headquartered Pine Technology Holdings Limited Group that specializes in the manufacture of graphics cards based on designs by chipset manufacturer NVIDIA. Like BFG and eVGA, XFX sell cards which come overclocked to speeds higher than the standard cards, in an attempt to appeal to experienced users.
Xgl Xgl is an X server architecture designed to take advantage of modern graphics cards via their OpenGL drivers, layered on top of OpenGL via glitz. It supports hardware acceleration of all X, OpenGL and XVideo applications and graphical effects by a compositing window manager such as Compiz or Beryl.
Xgrid In computers, Xgrid is software developed by Apple's Advanced Computation Group that allows a group of networked computers to engage in distributed computing. The purpose of Xgrid is to offer scientists an easy-to-implement method of exploiting previously underused computational power at a low cost: it acts as a job scheduler, distributing jobs to be executed on available computers.
XG-1 Released in 1987, the XG-1 is the light gun that came bundled with the Atari XEGS. The XEGS, which stands for XE Game System, was an Atari 65XE computer reworked cosmetically to give the appearance of a game console.
XGameStation The XGameStation is a creation of Andre LaMothe that is designed to teach electronics and video game development to programmers. Originally he planned to use an ARM architecture processing unit and a FPGA to create a video game development system.
XGA XGA, the eXtended Graphics Array, is an IBM display standard introduced in 1990. Today, it is best known as a synonym for the 1024 Ă— 768 pixels display resolution, but the official definition is broader than that.
XGAM-71 Buck Duck The XGAM-71 Buck Duck was a decoy missile that was developed by Convair in the late 1950s. It was intended to have the same radar signature as the Strategic Air Command's B-36 bomber, thereby allowing it to disrupt the enemy's air defenses and dilute their effort to shoot down an incoming bomber fleet.
XGGI XGGI is a partly accelerated and fully multihead-capable X server which uses LibGGI to do hardware-independent graphics and input. It supports 8, 15, 16, 24, and 32 bit modes on any LibGGI target that has a pixellinear DirectBuffer, and should run in any resolution the target can support.
XGMII XGMII is a standard for connecting full duplex 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) ports to each other and to other electronic devices on a printed circuit board. It is composed from two 32-bits datapaths (Rx & Tx) and two 4-bits control flows (Rxc & Txc), operating at 156.
XGMML XGMML (the eXtensible Graph Markup and Modeling Language) is an XML application based on GML which is used for graph description. Technically, while GML is not related to XML nor SGML, XGMML is an XML application that is so designed that there's a 1:1 relation towards GML for trivial conversion between the two formats.
Xhosa months Traditionally, Xhosa months were named after plants or flowers that grew or seasonal changes that happened during that time of the year. The year began in June and ended in May, when Canopus, a large star visible in the Southern Hemisphere, signalled the time for harvesting.
Xhosa music Xhosa music has long been a major part of the music of South Africa, especially in the field of jazz. There are many Xhosa clans, each with their own styles of drumming and dialects Ngqoko Women's Cultural Group] exists to promote the Xhosa music of the village of Ngqoko reading==
Xhosa Wars The Xhosa wars, also known as the Kaffir Wars or Cape Frontier Wars, were a series of nine wars between the amaXhosa people and European settlers from 1779 and 1879 in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The wars were responsible for the amaXhosa people's loss of most of their land, and the incorporation of its people.
XHarbour xHarbour is a free (GPL + exception supporting commercial applications) multi-platform (DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux (32,64), Unix (32,64), Mac OS X) extended Clipper compiler, offering multiple GT (Graphic Terminals), including console drivers, GUIs (free such as HWGui, MiniGUI and commercial, such as Visual xHarbour, FiveWin, Xailer), and Hybrid Console/GUIs, such as GTWvt, and GTWvw. xHarbour is 100% Clipper backward compatible and supports many language syntax extensions, greatly extended run-time libraries such as OLE, ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, TIpt, TXml, RegEx, HbZip, xbScript and extensive third party support.
XHAS-TV XHAS (Channel 33), commonly identified on the air as "XHAS" and "Telemundo 33", is the Telemundo-affiliated television station, licensed to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, with studios and offices in San Diego, California. The station is owned and operated by Entravision, with its Mexican transmitter and license owned by a Mexican company.
XHDTV-TV XHDTV-TV, commonly identified on the air as "XDTV", is the My Network TV-affiliated television station, licensed to both Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, and San Diego, California, United States (where the station's studios and offices originate). The station is owned and operated by Bay City Television, a division of Entravision Communications Corporation, and is co-owned with Fox-affiliated XETV-TV (Channel 6).
XHLAT-TV XHLAT is the television call sign for the TV Azteca 7 television station in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Its morning and news programming comes from TV Azteca Noreste Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and its primetime programming from XHIMT Mexico City.
XHLNA-TV XHLNA is the television call sign for the TV Azteca 13 television station in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Its morning and news programming comes from TV Azteca Noreste Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and its primetime programming from XHDF Mexico City.
XHLRT-TV XHLRT is the television call sign for the Televisa television station channel 44 in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico. It rebroadcasts programs from the "Canal de las Estrellas" XEW-TV, Mexico City.
XHMNU-TV XHMNU channel 53, also known as "El Canal del Conocimiento" ("The Knowledge Channel"), is an educational television station owned and operated by the Universidad AutĂłnoma de Nuevo LeĂłn (UANL) in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
XHRIO-TV XHRIO, channel 2, is the local Fox affiliate for Brownsville and the Lower Rio Grande Valley. It is licensed to Matamoros, Mexico, but serves American audiences across the Rio Grande from its studios in McAllen, Texas.
XHTML The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but a stricter syntax. Whereas HTML is an application of SGML, a very flexible markup language, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML.
XHTML Friends Network XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks developed by Global Multimedia Protocols Group. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their tags, e.
XHTML Modularization XHTML modularization is a methodology for producing modularized markup languages in a number of different schema languages (currently DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG) so that the modules can easily be plugged together to create markup languages.
XHTV-TV XHTV (Channel 4 analog and Channel 49 digital) is a flagship TV station of Televisa. Known in Spanish as Canal de la Ciudad (City Channel in English), this station primarily targets the Mexico City metro area and thus a lot of the programming reflects life in Mexico City.
Xchagger In Star Control 3 the Xchagger are a microscopic race of sentient parasites who typically live on Ortogs. At one time there were many such Ortog colonies, until all but one was exterminated by the Hegemonic Crux.
Xchanging Xchanging (is a business processing services company working in the the financial], [[insurance, manufacturing and retail sectors internationally. The company handles large, complex back-office business processing in the areas of customer administration, human resources, procurement, finance & accounting.
Xi Andromedae Xi Andromedae (ξ And / ξ Andromedae) is a binary star in the constellation Andromeda. It also has the traditional name Adhil, from an Arabic phrase الذيل að-ðayl meaning "the train [of a garment]" (literally "the tail").
Xi Chi Sigma Xi Chi Sigma (ΞХΣ, also known as XCS) is an Asian-interest fraternity founded in Stockton, California. Xi Chi Sigma is dedicated to serving the local community of Stockton and its student community of the University of the Pacific.
Xi Jinping Xi Jinping (Chinese: 习近平; 1953—) is the current Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee, therefore the number one figure in Zhejiang, and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress.
Xi Kang Xi Kang or Ji Kang (); styled Shuye 叔夜, and was also called Zhongsan Daifu 中散大夫; was born in 奚康 during the Wei Jin transition 223-262, was a Chinese author, poet, Taoist philosopher, musician, and alchemist.
Xi Serpentis Xi Serpentis (ξ Ser / ξ Serpentis) is a triple star system in the constellation Serpens. In the past, it was called by the traditional name Nehushtan (Hebrew נחושתן), which refers to the bronze serpent of Moses.
Xi Shengmo Xi Shengmo, (circa 1830-1896) also known as Pastor Hsi, was a Chinese Christian leader. He was born Xi Liaozhi in a village near Linfen, became a Confucian scholar, and after his conversion to Christianity changed his given name to Shengmo or Conqueror of Demons.
Xi Tauri Xi Tauri (Îľ Tau / Îľ Tauri) is a triple star system in the constellation Taurus. It carries the Akkadian name Ushakaron or Yshakaron, meaning "Exacter of Justice and Retribution" or "The Avenger" or "The Vindicator".
Xi Yang Lou Xi Yang Lou (, lit: Western Mansion(s)) are ruins of 18th-century European-style imperial buildings on the grounds of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, China. They are located in the northern part of the Chang Chun Yuan, one of the three gardens which once made up the Old Summer Palace, and cover an area of about 7 hectares.
Xi Zheng Xi Zheng a high ranking minister serving under the Kingdom of Shu during the later years of the Three Kingdoms period of China. When the great Zhuge Liang left for the Northern Campaign, Xi Zheng was tasked to look after domestic affairs on his behalf.
Xi Zhongxun Xi Zhongxun (Simplified Chinese: 习仲勋, Traditional Chinese:習仲勛, Pinyin:xí zhòngxūn, 1913-May 24, 2002) was a communist revolutionary and a State Councillor of the People's Republic of China. He is considered to be in the first of the generations of Chinese leadership.
Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation (aka Xi'an Aircraft Company Limited aka XAC) is a Chinese aircraft manufacturer and developer of large and medium-sized airplanes. It is joint partners with 602nd Aircraft Design Institute of military aircraft.
Xi'an Incident The Xi'an Incident of December 1936 () is an important episode of Chinese modern history, taking place in the city of Xi'an during the Chinese Civil War between the ruling Kuomintang (KMT or Nationalist Party) and the rebel Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and just before the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 12 December 1936, Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the KMT was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Marshall Zhang Xueliang, a former warlord of Manchuria, then Japan-occupied Manchukuo.
Xi'an International Studies University Xi'an International Studies University (XISU) (西安外国语大学) was founded in 1952 in the province of Shaanxi, in the ancient city of Xi'an. It was one of the oldest language schools in People's Republic of China.
Xi-Cheng Zhang Xi-Cheng Zhang is director of the Center for Terahertz Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also holds the title of Professor in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics,and Astronomy, and the Department of Electrical, Computer, and System Engineering As director, he has been involved in much ground breaking research using Terahertz radiation, a part of the spectrum between microwaves and infrared, and the traditional bounds of electronics, and phonics.
Xia Dynasty The Xia Dynasty (), ca. 2070 BC–1600 BCis the first dynasty] to be described independently in both the official [[Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial Bamboo Annals, which record the names of seventeen kings over fourteen generations lasted 471 years (another theory 431 years).
Xia Gui Xia Gui (1195–1224) Chinese scroll painter of the Song dynasty, who was one of the great masters of the Southern Song landscape style. He was active in the imperial painting academy at Hangzhou during the reign of Song emperor Ning Zong (Ning-Tsung).
Xia Shang Zhou Chronology Project A multi-year, multi-discipline project commissioned by the People's Republic of China in 1996 to determine with accuracy the location and time frame of the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty. Some 200 experts took part in the project, the results of which were released in November 2000.
Xia Yan Xia Yan (夏衍)(October 30 1900 - February 6 1995) was a Chinese playwright and screenwriter. Amongst the dozens of plays and screenplays penned by Xia Yen, the most renowned works include Under the Eaves of Shanhai (1937) and The Fascist Bacillus (1944).
Xiafs Xiafs was a file system for the operating system Linux which was conceived and developed by Frank Xia and was based on the Minix file system. Today it is obsolete and not in use, except possibly in some historic installations.
Xiagou Formation The Xiagou Formation named for its type site in Xiagou, in the Changma Basin of Gansu Province, northwestern China, is an Early Cretaceous sequence, which is known outside the specialized world of Chinese geology as the site of a lagerstätte in which the fossils were preserved of Gansu, the earliest true modern bird. The laminated yellowish mudstones of the Xiagou Formation are the lithified remnants of varves that were laid down as extremely fine silt settled to the bottom of a tranquil freshwater lake.
Xiahe County Xiahe () is a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province, the People's Republic of China. It is home to the famed Labrang Lamma Buddhist monastery, the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in China, outside of Tibet proper.
Xiahou Ba Xiahou Ba (夏侯霸, 202 – 262) was a military commander of the Three Kingdoms state of Wei. He was from one of the leading military families at the time, but fled to the Kingdom of Shu due to political instability at the capital Luoyang.
Xiamen g) is a coastal sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It looks out to the Taiwan Strait and borders the cities of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou to the north and south respectively.
Xiamen Airlines Xiamen Airlines (simplified Chinese: 厦门航空; pinyin: Xiàmén Hángkōng) is the first airline company in People's Republic of China run by private individuals, established on July 25, 1984, and based in Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport. The rights are shared by China Southern Airlines 60% and Xiamen Construction and Development Group 40%.
Xiamen Post & Telecommunications Building Xiamen Post & Telecommunications Building is a 66 floor tall office skyscraper under construction at Hubin Road South / Xiahe Road at Xiamen, China. It will be 364 metres tall to the top of the spire and 249.
Xiamen University Xiamen University (XMU, Latin: Universitas Amoiensis, Pinyin: Xiàmén Dàxué, Simplified Chinese: 厦门大学), colloquially Xia Da (Pinyin: Xià Dà, Simplified Chinese: 厦大), located in Xiamen, Fujian Province, is the first university in China founded by overseas Chinese. The school motto: "Pursue Excellence, Strive for Perfection (自强不息, 止于至善)".
Xian Chanba Xi'an Chanba International or Inter Xian is a football club based at the Shanxi Stadium in Xi'an and playing in the Chinese Super League. They are owned by Shanghai Yungtay Engineering (95%) and Zhongyuan Real Estate (5%).
Xian JH-7 The Xian Jian Hong (JH)-7, also known as the FBC-1 Flying Leopard, is a two-seater (tandem), twin-engine fighter-bomber in service with the People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force (PLANAF), and possibly the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The main contractors are Xian Aircraft Industry Corporation (XAC) and the 602nd Aircraft Design Institute.
Xian Xinghai Xian Xinghai (June 13, 1905 – October 30, 1945) (Chinese: 冼星海; pinyin: Xiǎn Xīnghăi) was a Chinese composer. He is best known for his Yellow River Cantata, upon which was based the Yellow River Concerto for piano and orchestra (arranged by Yin Chengzong).
Xianbei The Xianbei () were a significant nomadic people residing in modern Manchuria and eastern Mongolia, or Xianbei Shan. They were descendants of Donghu, a historic term for Greater Khingan, before migrating into areas of the modern Chinese provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, and Liaoning.
Xianbi Xianbi (咸屄) is a popular snack in Southeastern and Northern China. It consists of a chunk of meat - usually the lowest grade - often dressed with seaweed (海草) around the edges and generally has a hole in the middle where it can be skewered.
Xiandai wenxue Xindai wenxue, or Modern Literature in English, was a Taiwanese literary journal created in 1960. The journal was the brainchild of several National Taiwan University students, including Ouyang Tzu and Pai Hsien-yung.
Xianfeng Motorcycle Established in December 2001, Xianfeng Motorcycle is an independent private operation motorcycle company merging R&D, production, sales and trade into an integral whole. Their main business covers production and sales of Xianfeng brand motorcycles.
Xiang (linguistics) Xiāng (湘語/湘语), also known as Hunan, Hunanese, or Hsiang is a Chinese language spoken mainly in the Hunan province, but also in a few other provinces such as Sichuan and Guangxi. It is a group of languages of immense interest to Chinese dialectologists and historical phonologists because some of its languages still exhibit the three-way distinction of Middle Chinese obstruents, preserving the voiced stops, fricatives and affricates as in the modern Wu languages. However, it is surrounded by Mandarin in the north, west and south, thus showing a lot of Mandarin influences. New Xiang, which has lost the voiced obstruents, (as opposed to Old Xiang, which has preserved them) is to a certain extent intelligible to speakers of Southwestern Mandarin.
Xiang Lang Xiang Lang was a minister of the Three Kingdoms Period who was a vassal under Liu Bei, and the uncle of Xiang Chong. Xiang Lang originally served under that of Liu Biao, but following his death he then joined under Liu Bei.
Xiang River The Xiang River (also as Xiangjiang River, or simply as Xiangjiang, Chinese: 湘江 or "湘水", pinyin: Xiāng Jiāng, Xiāng Shǔi; Wade-Giles: "hsiāng chiāng" or "hsiāng shuǐ"), in older transliterations as the Siang River or Hsiang River, is a river in southern China. The river gave Hunan its Chinese abbreviation, Xiang (湘).
Xiang Ying Xiang Ying (Chinese: 项英, Pinyin: Xiàng Yīng) (1895(?)-1941) was a war-time Chinese communist leader reaching the rank of political chief of staff of the New Fourth Army during World War II until his assassination by a member of his staff in 1941.
Xiang'er The Xiang’er (Simplified Chinese: 想尔, Traditional Chinese: 想爾)is a commentary to the Daode jing that is best known for being one of the earliest surviving texts from the Way of the Celestial Master variant of Daoism. The meaning of the title Xiang’er is debated, but can be translated as meaning ‘thinking of you.
Xiangcheng Xiangcheng (Simplified Chinese: 项城; Traditional Chinese: 項城 Pinyin: Xiàngchéng) is a county-level city in eastern Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders Shenqiu to the east, Shangcai to the west, Huaiyang to the north, Pingyu to the southeast, and the province of Anhui on all other sides.
Xianglin Luo Xianglin Luo (Lo Hsiang Lin Chinese: Simplified Chinese 罗香林 Traditional Chinese 羅香林; 1906-1978) is one of the most renowned researchers in Hakka language and culture. His pioneering research in Hakka geneaology showed that the Hakka are Han Chinese.
Xiangsheng Xiangsheng (), sometimes translated as crosstalk, is a traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a monologue or a dialogue. The language, rich in puns and allusions, is used in a rapid, bantering style.
Xiangyang Xiangyang (Traditional Chinese: 襄陽; Simplified Chinese: 襄阳; pinyin: Xiāngyáng) was a Chinese city famous for the Siege of Xiangyang (1267-1273) by Mongol invaders. It was also an important city during the period of the Three Kingdoms, in the Romance of Three Kingdoms it was said that it was nearby Xiangyang that Zhuge Liang received his three visits from Liu Bei.
Xianren Cave Xianren Cave () is a small cave in Wannian County, Jiangxi, China, and the location for historically important finds of prehistoric pottery shards and rice grains. The name refers to the legendary Chinese Xian "immortal; transcendent; fairy".
Xianxingzhe Xianxingzhe () is the first bipedal humanoid robot in China, created in 2000 by the Chinese National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, Hunan. The robot, standing 140 cm tall and weighing 20 kg, walks at a pace of two steps per second.
Xianyang Xianyang () was the capital of the state of Qin during the Warring States Period in Chinese history, and remained capital during the short-lived Qin Dynasty. It was located in the modern day Shaanxi province on the northern bank of the Wei River, on the opposite side of which Liu Bang would later build the Han Dynasty capital of Chang'an once he became emperor.
Xiao (flute) The xiao () is a version of the xiao, which is narrower and generally in the key of F with eight finger holes, used to accompany the guqin. The narrowness of the qin xiao makes the tone softer, making it more suitable to play with the qin (which is a very quiet instrument).
Xiao Baoyin Xiao Baoyin (蕭寶寅) (487-530), courtesy name Zhiliang (智亮), was an imperial prince of the Chinese dynasty Southern Qi. In 502, as Southern Qi was on the edge of being taken over by the general Xiao Yan, who was preparing by killing the imperial princes, Xiao Baoyin fled to rival Northern Wei and became an official and general in the Northern Wei government.
Xiao Daqi Xiao Daqi (蕭大器) (524-551), courtesy name Renzong (仁宗), formally Crown Prince Ai (哀太子, literally "the lamentable crown prince"), was a crown prince of the Chinese dynasty Liang Dynasty. He was the oldest son of Emperor Jianwen (Xiao Gang).
Xiao Gang Xiao Gang (; born 1958 in Ji'an, Jiangxi) is currently chairman of the board of directors of Bank of China Limited and Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited. From 1998 to his appointment to his current (as of 2005) position in 2003, he was a deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, the central bank of the People's Republic of China.
Xiao Chaogui Xiao Chaogui was an important leader during the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing government 1850-1864. He was a brother-in-law to Hong Xiuquan and was able to serve as a mouth piece for Jesus Christ during many 'heavenly visitations' Jesus paid to the Taiping.
Xiao Ji Xiao Ji (蕭紀) (508-553), courtesy name Shixun (世詢), known by his princely title of Prince of Wuling (武陵王), name derogatorily and posthumously changed to Taotie Ji (饕餮紀), was an imperial prince and pretender to the throne of the Chinese dynasty Liang Dynasty. He was the youngest son of the dynasty's founder Emperor Wu, and he governed the modern Sichuan and Chongqing region.
Xiao Ni Xiao Ni (蕭嶷) (444-492), courtesy name Xuanyan (宣儼), formally Prince Wenxian of Yuzhang (豫章文獻王), was an imperial prince during the Chinese dynasty Southern Qi. He was a son of the founder Emperor Gao (Xiao Daocheng) and a brother of Emperor Wu (Xiao Ze).
Xiao of Qin Duke Xiao (孝公 Qín Xiàogōng) (381 - 338 BC), born Yíng Qúliáng (嬴渠梁), was a ruler of the State of Qin from 361 to 338 BC during the Warring States Period in China. He employed Shang Yang, a skilled official from Weì (衛, not to be confused with 魏) who made two sets of political reforms to strengthen Qin.
Xiao Qian Xiao Qian (萧乾[蕭乾], pinyin Xiāo Qián, Wade-Giles Hsiao Ch'ien), alias Nuoping (若萍) (27 January 1910 – 11 February1999) was a famous essayist, editor, journalist and translator from China. His life spanned the country before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
Xiao Qiang Xiao Qiang () is a well-known Chinese human rights activist living in Berkeley, California. He is currently the director of the China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism University of California, Berkeley.
Xiao Tong Xiao Tong (蕭統) (501-531), courtesy name Deshi (德施), formally Crown Prince Zhaoming (昭明太子, literally "the accomplished and understanding crown prince"), later further posthumously honored as Emperor Zhaoming (昭明皇帝), was a crown prince of the Chinese dynasty Liang Dynasty. He was Emperor Wu (Xiao Yan)'s oldest son, who predeceased his father.
Xiao Yuanming Xiao Yuanming (蕭淵明) (d. 556), courtesy name Jingtong (靖通), often known by his pre-ascension title of Marquess of Zhenyang (貞陽侯), at times known by his post-removal title Duke of Jian'an (建安公), honored Emperor Min (閔皇帝) by Xiao Zhuang, was briefly an emperor of the Chinese dynasty Liang Dynasty.
Xiao Zhangmao Xiao ZhangmaoWhether his name should be pronounced "Zhangmao" or "Changmao" in modern Mandarin, obviously, is somewhat speculative, but given that he had a younger brother named Xiao Zimao (蕭子懋), it would appear that "Zhang" is appropriate since it denoted being older. (蕭長懋) (458-493), courtesy name Yunqiao (雲喬), nickname Baize (白澤), formally Crown Prince Wenhui (文惠太子, literally "the civil and benevolent crown prince"), later further posthumously honored as Emperor Wen (文皇帝) with the temple name of Shizong (世宗), was a crown prince of the Chinese dynasty Southern Qi.
Xiao Zhuang Xiao Zhuang (蕭莊) (548-577?), often known by his princely title of Prince of Yongjia (永嘉王), was a grandson of Emperor Yuan of Liang, who was declared by the general Wang Lin to be the legitimate emperor of Liang Dynasty in 558, under military assistance by Northern Qi.

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