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Yao Chang, founding emperor of the Later Qin Dynasty; Yao Ming, Chinese professional basketball player and humanitarian; Andrew Yao, Chinese computer scientist and A.M. Turing Award laureate; Jianping Yao, Canadian engineer; Yao Defen, former world's tallest woman; Yao Wenyuan, member of the Gang of Four; MC HotDog (born name as Yao Chung-jen ...
The word "妖" yao itself carries strong connotations of supernatural power, usually of the kind that runs contrary to the prescribed order of nature or heaven, and "妖术" (lit. "yao technique") means sorcery. In Chinese texts, specific yao 妖 are sometimes referred to as 鬼 (gui, spectre or ghost), 怪 (guai, strange monster), 魔 (mo ...
The Yao people (simplified Chinese: 瑶族; traditional Chinese: 瑤族; pinyin: Yáozú) or Dao (Vietnamese: người Dao) is a classification for various ethnic minorities in China and Vietnam.
The Yao people's exonym changed twice from (犭 "dog radical" and yao 䍃 phonetic) yao 猺 "jackal; the Yao", to (亻"human radical") yao 傜 "the Yao", and then to (玉 "jade radical") yao 瑤 "precious jade; green jasper; the Yao". Chinese dictionaries first defined yao 猺 as the "name of a wild animal" (11th-century Jiyun: 獸名), and ...
The Yao Nationality consists of three major groups: Pan Yao, Bunu Yao, and Pingdi Yao. [1] The Pan Yao group is the largest in China and Southeast Asia. Most Iu Mien Americans belong to this Pan Yao group. The Yao Nationality was officially recognized by the Chinese government in the 1950s.
Some Chinese archaeologists believe that Taosi was the site of a state called Tang (唐) conquered by Emperor Yao and made to be his capital. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The structure consists of an outer semi-ring-shaped path, and a semi-round rammed-earth platform with a diameter of about 60 m; it was discovered in 2003–2004.
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
Yao Ming (Chinese: 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 Basketball Association (NBA).