Tao
Tao stands for:
- Dao (also Tao ), Chinese term for "way"
- Tao (band) , former German pop band
- Tao , stage name of the Japanese model Tao Okamoto (* 1985)
Geography:
- Ko Tao , Thai island
- Tao (Lanzarote) , place on the island of Lanzarote
- Tao He , river in China
- a former Georgian province in what is now Turkey, see Tao-Klardschetien
Tao is the family name of the following people:
- Tao Hongjing (456-536), Chinese scholar and alchemist
- Tao Jiaming (* 1985), Chinese badminton player
- Tao Jiaying (* 1993), Chinese short tracker
- Tao Kan (259–334), Chinese general and governor
- Katsushi Tao (* 1963), Japanese ski jumper
- Tao Luna (* 1974), Chinese marksman
- Tao Qian (132–194), governor of Xuzhou during the late Han dynasty
- Terence Tao (* 1975), Australian mathematician
- Tao Xiaoqiang (* 1973), Chinese badminton player
- Tao Xingzhi (1891–1946), Chinese educational scientist and reform pedagogue
- Yizhi Jane Tao , Chinese biochemist and cell biologist
- Tao Yuanming (365 / 372–427), Chinese poet
- Tao Yujia (* 1987), Chinese athlete
- Tao Zhu (1908–1969), Chinese politician and leader of the Chinese Communist Party
TAO stands for:
- TAO - Third Age Online , research project
- TAO (software) , a CORBA real-time implementation
- TAO (musical group) , Japanese drum and dance group
- TAO (location) , method for locating mobile devices in GSM networks
- Tailored Access Operations , an NSA cyber warfare division that has existed since at least 1998
- Theater on Ortweinplatz in Graz
- Topics, associations, occurrences , the three most important structural elements in topic maps
- Track-at-once when describing optical media
- Transports de l'agglomération orléanaise , the transport network in the greater Orléans area, see Orléans tram
- Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Array , see TAO measuring network
- University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory
Codes:
- Qingdao Liuting Airport (IATA code)
- Aeromar , Mexican airline (ICAO code)
- Taounate (Province) (ISO-3166-2: MA code)
- Taoyuan (ISO-3166-2: TW code)
tao stands for:
- Yami (language) (ISO-639-3 code), Malayo-Polynesian language of the Tau (people) , also called Yami
See also:
- Thao
- Daodejing ( Tao Te King ), sacred scriptures of Daoism
- Tao Tao - Animal Stories from Around the World , Japanese Cartoon