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n. A Japanese evil spirit or demon.

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Oni (disambiguation)

are demons or ghouls (ghosts) of Japanese folklore.

Oni may also refer to:

  • Oni, India, a small village in Western India
  • Oni, Georgia, a town in the Republic of Georgia
  • Oni (series), a series of RPG video games
  • Oni (video game), a 2001 third-person shooter video game made by Bungie Studios
  • Oni Press, an independent comic book publisher
  • Onimusha (series), a series of action video games made by Capcom
  • Oni Aliens, foes in the Gantz manga
  • Oni the title of a linked video game and film project based on an unfinished Akira Kurosawa script, that was later renamed Ni-Oh
  • Oni, a race of aliens from the manga and anime Urusei Yatsura
  • Oni, the kanji representing the Challenge difficulty level in the game Dance Dance Revolution
  • Oni or ooni, ancient kings of Nigeria's Yoruba people
  • Oni, an alternate form of Akuma that appears in the Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition video game
  • Oni, an antagonist character on the Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks video game.

ONI may refer to:

  • Office of Naval Intelligence, the United States Navy's intelligence agency
  • National Olympiad of Informatics (Olimpiada Naţională de Informatică), the most important Romanian informatics competition
  • OpenNet Initiative, a project for tracking the use of internet filtering and surveillance
  • ONI Systems Corporation, an optical networking company acquired by Ciena Corporation in 2002
Oni

are a kind of yōkai from Japanese folklore, variously translated as demons, devils, ogres, or trolls. They are popular characters in Japanese art, literature and theatre.

Depictions of oni vary widely but usually portray them as hideous, gigantic ogre-like creatures with sharp claws, wild hair, and two long horns growing from their heads. They are humanoid for the most part, but occasionally, they are shown with unnatural features such as odd numbers of eyes or extra fingers and toes. Their skin may be any number of colors, but red and blue are particularly common.

They are often depicted wearing tiger-skin loincloths and carrying iron clubs called . This image leads to the expression , that is, to be invincible or undefeatable. It can also be used in the sense of "strong beyond strong", or having one's natural quality enhanced or supplemented by the use of some tool. In addition to this, it can mean to go overboard, or be unnecessarily strong or powerful.

Oni (video game)

Oni is a third-person action video game developed by Bungie West, a division of Bungie. Released in 2001, it was Bungie West's only game. It broke new ground by blending third-person shooting with hand-to-hand combat.

Oni (letter)

Oni (asomtavruli , nuskhuri , mkhedruli ო) is the 16th letter of the three Georgian scripts.

In the system of Georgian numerals it has a value of 70.

Oni commonly represents the close-mid back rounded vowel , like the pronunciation of in "law".

Usage examples of "oni".

Whenever Keill thought about her, the picture that came to his mind was exactly what was happening now - Oni dashing ahead towards some new excitement, Keill following behind, usually with a wry smile.

It was standing open, and through it Keill could see Oni sprinting across the dusty brown grass.

For a moment Keill lost sight of Oni - easy enough to do, among fifteen young people all dressed in shorts and sleeveless shirts.

Not the millions that Oni had announced - in fact, not more than a dozen.

Keill and Oni looked over at the thin figure of Charrel, standing hunched by himself on the riverbank.

Despite the self-discipline and self-control that was ingrained in even the young children of the Legions, the fourteen-year-old Oni could still sometimes let her impulsive, exuberant nature break free.

In any case, he was worried about Charrel, too, and wished just as much as Oni did that something could be done.

But he was no less worried, now, about what Oni might take it into her mind to do.

Keill did not want Oni to invent some wild scheme for helping Charrel that might make matters worse, and get Oni into trouble.

And Keill was relieved again to see that Oni and Charrel were in different squads - and that, in the evening, after toying briefly with his meal, Charrel vanished into his cubicle before Oni or anyone could speak to him.

So he clipped the energy gun to his belt, as Oni had done the night before, and set out south-eastwards.

Everyone was covertly watching Charrel, looking even more troubled than usual, sitting at one end of the table and poking darkly at his food - and Oni, sitting nearby, her eyes fixed on him.

But mingled with it was an almost equally painful sympathy - for Oni, who would be feeling a far more terrible torment.

Then Oni was beside him, her eyes calm and bright, her own blade flashing.

Her partner was hauling her away, and Oni was defending the doorway on her own.