Yao

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Yao or YAO may refer to:

People

Yao (surname), the transliteration of Chinese family names 姚, 銚, and 么
Emperor Yao, a mythical Chinese ruler and emperor
Yao Ming (born 1980), Chinese basketball all-star who 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 (Asia), 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
Yao Wang, also known as China from the 2009 anime Hetalia

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

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