XY explained

XY, or xy, or any of its variants may refer to:

Entertainment

Pokémon X and Y, a pair of 2013 role-playing video games in the Pokémon series
XY (magazine), a gay male youth magazine that also operated a personals website
X, Y, a 1993 novel by Michael Blumlein
X&Y, a 2005 album by Coldplay
Xy, a member of the band Samael

Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst, a German television series first broadcast in 1967
Kyle XY, an American sci-fi television series first broadcast in 2006
, the 17th season of Pokémon and the first and titular season of Pokémon the Series: XY, first broadcast in 2013; named after the games
X+Y, a 2014 British film
X/Y, a 2014 American film
X&Y (film), a 2018 Swedish film
"XY", an episode of the 8th season of the television series Castle, first broadcast in 2018
XY Chelsea, a 2019 American-British documentary film about Chelsea Manning

the XY model, a lattice model of statistical mechanics
the XY problem, a problem of communication in software engineering and technical support situations

XY sex chromosomes, in the XY sex-determination system found in many animals
- a male, an organism typically having one X and one Y chromosome and producing sperm gametes that fuse with a female gamete during sexual reproduction
- XY gonadal dysgenesis, also known as Swyer syndrome, a type of hypogonadism resulting in a phenotypical female with functionless gonads

and, symbols commonly used to denote variables in mathematical formulas
-coordinates, a system used to locate a point in two dimensions according to the cartesian coordinate system
and, symbols conventionally used to denote the domain and codomain of a function
The definition of an function that produces a hyperbolic paraboloid