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 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 Euphrasie Kouassi Yao (also Yao Kouassi, born 18 April 1964) is an Ivorian politician, who is the current special advisor to president Alassane Ouattara in charge of gender. She has also served as the Minister for the Promotion of Women, Famil ...

, 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) 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 a ...

, 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), 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 ...

in Gnostic 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, 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 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, 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 ;YAO * Yaoundé Airport, IATA code YAO * Yau Oi stop, MTR station code YAO * Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, in east suburb of Kunming, Yunnan, China

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