Yao

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Yao or YAO may refer to:

People

  • Yao (surname), the transliteration of Chinese family names 姚, 銚, and 么
  • Yao (ruler), a mythical Chinese ruler and emperor
  • Yao Ming (born 1980), Chinese basketball all-star that played for the Houston Rockets
  • Euphrasie Kouassi Yao (born 1964), Ivorian politician
  • Andrew Yao (born 1946), Chinese computational theorist

Ethnic groups and languages

  • a tribe by the shores of Lake Malawi
  • Yao people, ethnic minority group of southern China and Vietnam
  • Yao languages spoken by the Yao
  • Yao people (East Africa), people of south-central Africa
  • Yao language, a Bantu language spoken by the Yao people in Africa
  • Yao language (Trinidad), an extinct Cariban language formerly spoken on Trinidad

Places

  • Yao, Chad, a town in Chad
  • Yao, Osaka, a city in Japan
  • Mount Xiao, or Mount Yao, in Henan, China
  • Mount Yao (Lushan County), in Henan, China
  • Yaoundé Airport, IATA code YAO
  • Yau Oi stop, MTR station code YAO
  • Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, in east suburb of Kunming, Yunnan, China

Media

  • Yao (film), 2018 French film by Philippe Godeau
  • Yao, a character in Mulan (1998 film)
  • Medicine (short story), 1922 Chinese short story by Lu Xun

Other uses

  • Yao may be short for yaodong, a type of Chinese cave dwelling
  • Yao (Gnosticism), the name of an archon in Gnostic scripture
  • Yao (爻), the term for the marks used in the preparation of trigrams and hexagrams in I Ching that is also the basis for Kangxi radical 89
  • Yao graph, a subgraph that guarantees connectivity

See also

  • Yau (disambiguation)
  • Yaw (disambiguation)
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