Xia

Xia details several meanings in the Chinese language and the History of China:

The season of summer (夏)
Xia (philosophy) is a Chinese philosophy similar (but not identical) to the chivalrous code of European knights.
A Chinese family name
The Xia Dynasty (夏)
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.
Xia class submarine, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine.

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