Yao

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)