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
 * Yo, or Yao, an American English interjection