Yao or YAO may refer to:
People Yao (surname), the transliteration of Chinese family names 姚, 銚, and 么 Emperor Yao, a mythical Chinese ruler and emperor Yao Ming (born 1980), Chinese basketball all-star who 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 (Asia), 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 Yao Wang, also known as China from the 2009 anime Hetalia
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)