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Yao

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noun Wade-Giles, Pinyin.
a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor (Shun ), was a paragon of good government.
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noun, plural Yaos, (especially collectively) Yao for 1.
a member of an Indigenous people of Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
the Bantu language spoken by the Yao.
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