Mao (disambiguation)

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Mao Zedong, sometimes called just Mao, was the founder of the People's Republic of China.

Mao may also refer to:

• Mao (surname), Chinese family names
• Mao (name)
• Mao (people), one of the scheduled tribes of India
• Mao (languages), a group of Omotic languages in western Ethiopia
• Mao (card game), a card game
• Mao Naga, a Naga tribe in India
• Jiao (currency), one tenth of a Chinese yuan
• Mao (bird), a bird species Gymnomyza samoensis
• Mah or Mao, the Zoroastrianism's divinity of the moon
• Ma‘o, an Hawaiian name for a species of cotton

Chinese characters

• 毛 (hanyu pinyin: Máo), a Chinese character meaning hair or fur. It is also a common Chinese surname, and the surname of Mao Zedong.
• 猫 (hanyu pinyin: Māo), a Chinese character meaning cat

Places

• Mao, Chad, a city in Chad
• Mao County, in Sichuan, China
• Santa Cruz de Mao, also known as Mao, a municipality of the Valverde province in the Dominican Republic
• Mahón, also known as Maó, a city on the island of Minorca, Spain

Acronyms

• Monoamine oxidase, Enzyme
• Methylaluminoxane
• Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil (IATA code)
• Plasma electrolytic oxidation, also known as "Micro Arc Oxidation"
• Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, Lithuania
• Maximum tolerable period of disruption, also known as maximum allowable/acceptable outage (MAO), a concept in disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Mu Alpha Theta or MAΘ, Mu Alpha Theta National Mathematics Honor Society
• Martins Heron railway station has MAO as its three-letter station code.

Entertainment and media

• Mao, vocalist from the Japanese Visual Kei band SID
• Mao (card game), a card game
• Mao: The Unknown Story, 2005 biography of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong

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