Yao

Yao or YAO may refer to:

Yao people, ethnic group in China and Southeast Asia
Yao people (East Africa), people of south-central Africa
The name of the demiurge in Gnostic scripture
Yao, Chad, a town in Chad
Yao language, a Bantu language spoken by the waYao people in Africa
Yao languages, or Mien, of China
Yao, Osaka, a city in Japan
- Related: Yao Airport
Yao (ruler), a mythical Chinese ruler and emperor
Yao (surname), the transliteration of Chinese family names 姚, 銚, and 么
Yao (要, Yo) is Japanese's surname
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, a character in Mulan media
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