Pao

Pao can refer to:

People

• Pao Ching-yen zh:鮑敬言 (also spelled Bao Jingyan), a Chinese anarchist philosopher who presumably lived in the early fourth century C.E.
• Yih-Ho Michael Pao, an American entrepreneur and hydro-engineer
• Pa'O people, an ethnic group in Burma

Fictional

• Pao-chan, a fictional character from the Japanese magical girl anime television series, Ojamajo Doremi.

Places

• Pao River, the name of several rivers
• Pao, Trakan Phuet Phon - Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand

Things

• Pa, the Cantonese word for baozi

• Pao is the name of Indonesian mango^{Questioned[citation needed]}
• Pao (袍), an element of Han Chinese clothing
• Pao (unit), an obsolete unit of mass and (especially) dry measure in South Asia
• Panathinaikos Athlikos Omilos (PAO), the Greek multisport club
• Prince Alfreds Own Cape Volunteer Artillery, (PAO) or (PAOCVA)
• A fairy chess piece
• Nissan Pao, an automobile
• The Languages of Pao, a science fiction novel by Jack Vance
• Barangay Pao, a progressive barangay of Manaoag, Pangasinan.
• Pao de Queijo, a Portuguese and Brazilian cheesy bread.
• Pheophorbide a oxygenase, an enzyme

All capital letters

PAO may refer to:

• PAO, the ICAO code for Polynesian Airlines
• PAO, the IATA airport code for Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County
• acronym for Phased-array optics
• acronym for Polyphosphate-accumulating organism
• acronym for Public Affairs Office
• acronym for Pierre Auger Observatory
• shorthand for polyalphaolefin, a type of linear alpha olefin
• shorthand for the period-after-opening symbol found on cosmetics products

See also

• Pau (disambiguation)
• Pav (disambiguation)