Yao

Yao or YAO may refer to:

Yao (surname), the transliteration of Chinese family names 姚, 銚, and 么
Yao (ruler), a mythical Chinese ruler and emperor
Yao Ming, Chinese Basketball All-Star that played for the Houston Rockets
Euphrasie Kouassi Yao, Ivorian politician
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 waYao people in Africa
Yao language (Trinidad), an extinct Cariban language formerly spoken on Trinidad
Yao may be short for yaodong, a type of Chinese cave dwelling
Yao (Gnosticism), the name of an archon in Gnostic scripture
Yao, Chad, a town in Chad
Yao, Osaka, a city in Japan
- Related: Yao Airport
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 (film), 2018 French film by Philippe Godeau
Yao, a character in Mulan (1998 film)
Yao graph, a subgraph that guarantees connectivity
Yo, or Yao, an American English interjection
Mount Xiao, or Mount Yao, in Henan, China
Mount Yao (Lushan County), in Henan, China
a tribe by the shores of Lake Malawi
Medicine (short story), 1922 Chinese short story by Lu Xun

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