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Yao (surname) Yao (), also romanized as Yiu in Cantonese, is one of the most ancient Chinese surnames, the " Eight Great Xings of High Antiquity". It is also unique that, along with Jiang 姜 it is still in common use in the modern day. It is listed 101st in t ...

, the transliteration of Chinese family names 姚, 銚, and 么 *

Yao (ruler) Emperor Yao (; traditionally c. 2356 – 2255 BCE) was a legendary Chinese ruler, according to various sources, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Ancestry and early life Yao's ancestral name is Yi Qi () or Qi (), clan name ...

, a mythical Chinese ruler and emperor *

Yao Ming Yao Ming (; born September 12, 1980) is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Associat ...

, Chinese Basketball All-Star that played for the Houston Rockets * Euphrasie Kouassi Yao, Ivorian politician *

Yao people The Yao people (its majority branch is also known as Mien; ; vi, người Dao) is a government classification for various minorities in China and Vietnam. They are one of the 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities in China and reside in ...

, ethnic minority group of southern China and Vietnam *

Yao languages The Mienic or Yao languages are spoken by the Yao people of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Some of the Yao peoples speak Hmongic languages (Miao); these are called '' Bunu''. A small population of Yao people in Jinxiu Yao Autonomous Count ...

spoken by the Yao *

Yao people (East Africa) The yao people, ''wayao'', are a major Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based at the southern end of Lake Malawi, who played an important part in the history of Southeast Africa during the 19th century. The Yao are a predominantly Muslim p ...

, people of south-central Africa *

Yao language Yao is a Bantu language in Africa with approximately two million speakers in Malawi, and half a million each in Tanzania and Mozambique. There are also some speakers in Zambia. In Malawi, the main dialect is Mangochi, mostly spoken around Lake ...

, a Bantu language spoken by the waYao people in Africa *

Yao language (Trinidad) Yao (Jaoi, Yaoi, Yaio, Anacaioury) is an extinct Cariban language of Trinidad and French Guiana, attested in a single 1640 word list recorded by Joannes de Laet. It is thought that the Yao people migrated from the Orinoco to the islands perhaps ...

, an extinct Cariban language formerly spoken on Trinidad * Yao may be short for

yaodong A yaodong () or "house cave" is a particular form of earth shelter dwelling common in the Loess Plateau in China's north. They are generally carved out of a hillside or excavated horizontally from a central "sunken courtyard". The earth that su ...

, a type of Chinese cave dwelling *

Yao (Gnosticism) In Sethian Gnosticism, Yao or Iao () is an archon. In '' On the Origin of the World'', he is one of the three sons of Yaldabaoth, with the other two being Astaphaios and Eloai. In the ''Apocryphon of John'', he is the fourth of the seven archons ...

, the name of an

archon ''Archon'' ( gr, ἄρχων, árchōn, plural: ἄρχοντες, ''árchontes'') is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem αρχ-, mean ...

Gnostic Gnosticism (from grc, γνωστικός, gnōstikós, , 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems which coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. These various groups emphasized pe ...

scripture *

Yao, Chad Yao ( ar, ياؤ) is a town in Chad and the capital of the Fitri department. Yao is also the name of a pre-colonial Sultanate in the same area. See the Bulala The Bilala or Bulala are a Muslim people that live around Lake Fitri, in the Batha ...

, a town in Chad *

Yao, Osaka is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 263,436 in 126509 households and a population density of 6300 persons per km². The total area of the city is . The city is the birthplace of the Kawachi o ...

, a city in Japan ** Related:

Yao Airport is a general aviation airport in Yao, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Located southeast of Ōsaka Station, it is also an airbase for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. Several small carriers offer sightseeing and charter flights from Yao, includin ...

* Yao (爻), the term for the marks used in the preparation of trigrams and hexagrams in

I Ching The ''I Ching'' or ''Yi Jing'' (, ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zho ...

that is also the basis for Kangxi radical 89 * Yao, a character in the ''

Mulan Hua Mulan () is a legendary folk heroine from the Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century CE) of Chinese history. According to legend, Mulan took her aged father's place in the conscription for the army by disguising herself as ...

'' franchise *

Yao graph In computational geometry, the Yao graph, named after Andrew Yao, is a kind of geometric spanner, a weighted undirected graph connecting a set of geometric points with the property that, for every pair of points in the graph, their shortest pa ...

, a subgraph that guarantees connectivity * Yo, or Yao, an American English interjection *

Mount Xiao Mount Xiao or Mount Yao () is a range of mountains in western Henan, China north of the Luo River and south of Sanmenxia. Major peaks include Qīnggǎngfēng (青崗峰; 1903 m) and Guānyúnshān (冠雲山; 1666 m). The range is par ...

, or Mount Yao, in Henan, China *

Mount Yao (Lushan County) Mount Yao (), formerly Mount Shiren (), is located in west of Pingdingshan, Henan Province. It lies east of the Funiu Mountains. It stands in the middle area of inner land, near to the National Way 311, 207, closing to the Zhijiao Railway. The ...

, in Henan, China * a tribe by the shores of

Lake Malawi Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. It is the fifth largest fre ...

Medicine (short story) "Medicine" () is a short story by Chinese writer Lu Xun (Lu Hsun). Written in 1919, it was published in 1922 as part of ''Call to Arms'', a collection of short stories penned by the writer. The story recounts the tale of Old Chuan and his wife, whos ...

, 1922 Chinese short story by Lu Xun ;YAO *

Yaoundé Airport Yaoundé Airport is an airport in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon and a city in the Centre Province. It is also known as Yaoundé Ville Airport. It should not be confused with Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport See also * Cameroon Air For ...

, IATA code YAO *

Yau Oi stop Yau Oi () is an MTR Light Rail stop located at ground level on Yau Oi Road near Yau Oi Car Park, Yau Oi Estate in Tuen Mun District, Hong Kong. It began service on 18 September 1988 and belongs to Zone 2. The stop only has one platform, which ...

, MTR station code YAO *

Yunnan Astronomical Observatory Yunnan Astronomical Observatory (YAO; ) an institution of Chinese Academy of Sciences sits on the Phoenix Hill in the east suburbs of Kunming, Yunnan, China. It is the only research observatory in the southwest of China. It is a state institution ...

, in east suburb of Kunming, Yunnan, China