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

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

Emperor Yao Emperor Yao (; traditionally c. 2356 – 2255 BCE) was a legendary China, 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 ...

, a mythical Chinese ruler and emperor *

Yao Ming Yao Ming ( zh, c=姚明; 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 Baske ...

(born 1980), Chinese basketball all-star who played for the Houston Rockets * Euphrasie Kouassi Yao (born 1964), Ivorian politician *

Andrew Yao Andrew Chi-Chih Yao ( zh , c = 姚期智 , p = Yáo Qīzhì; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist, physicist, and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Informati ...

(born 1946), Chinese computational theorist

Ethnic groups and languages

* 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 Lakes, African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. It is ...

Yao people The Yao people () or Dao () is a classification for various ethnic minorities in China and Vietnam. Their majority branch is also known as Mien. They originated in the areas around Changsha, which today is the capital of Hunan province. They s ...

, 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 are a Bantu ethnic group living at the southern end of Lake Malawi. The Yao are a predominantly Muslim-faith group of about two million, whose homelands encompass the countries of Malawi, and the north of Mozambique. Histor ...

, people of south-central Africa *

Yao language Yao is a Bantu language of Malawi and Mozambique. In Malawi, the main dialect is Mangochi, mostly spoken around in Mangochi District. In Mozambique, the main dialects are Makale and Massaninga. In Malawi, most Yao speakers live in the Southe ...

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

Yao language (Trinidad) Yao (Jaoi, Yaoi, Yaio, "Anacaioury") was a Cariban language that was spoken in Trinidad and French Guiana up until its extinction in the 17th century. The language was attested in a single 1640 word list recorded by Joannes de Laet. It is thoug ...

, an extinct Cariban language formerly spoken on Trinidad

Places

Yao, Chad Yao () is a town in Chad and the capital of the Fitri Department, Fitri department. Yao is also the name of a pre-colonial Sultanate in the same area. See the Bulala people. References

Populated places in Chad Batha Region {{Chad-geo-s ...

, a town in Chad *

Yao, Osaka is a Cities of Japan, city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 263,436 in 126,509 households and a population density of 6300 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . The city is the birthplace o ...

, 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 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 The Tuen Mun District () is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong, administrative districts of Hong Kong. ...

, 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) "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, who ...

, 1922 Chinese short story by Lu Xun *Yao Wang(China), from the 2009 anime ''

Hetalia is a Japanese webcomic written and illustrated by Hidekaz Himaruya. It was adapted as a manga series, which was serialized in ''Comic Birz'' from 2006 to 2013. A dark humour genre anime adaptation, produced by Studio Deen, premiered ...

Other uses

* Yao may be short for

yaodong A yaodong (窰 in native Jin Chinese, or 窰洞 ''yáodòng'' in Beijing Mandarin) is a particular form of Earth sheltering, earth shelter dwelling common in the Loess Plateau in China's north. They are generally carved out of a hillside or exc ...

, a type of Chinese cave dwelling *

Yao (Gnosticism) In Sethianism, Sethian Gnosticism, Yao or Iao () is an archon (Gnosticism), 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 t ...

, the name of an

archon ''Archon'' (, plural: , ''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 , meaning "to be first, to rule", derived from the same ...

Gnostic Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: , romanized: ''gnōstikós'', Koine Greek: �nostiˈkos 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among early Christian sects. These diverse g ...

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

I Ching The ''I Ching'' or ''Yijing'' ( ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The ''I Ching'' was originally a divination manual in ...

that is also the basis for Kangxi radical 89 *

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 p ...

, a subgraph that guarantees connectivity

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