Miao may refer to: *

Miao people The Miao are a group of linguistically-related peoples living in Southern China and Southeast Asia, who are recognized by the government of China as one of the 56 official ethnic groups. The Miao live primarily in southern China's mountains, in ...

, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China * Miao script or

Pollard script The Pollard script, also known as Pollard Miao (Chinese: 柏格理苗文 Bó Gélǐ Miao-wen) or Miao, is an abugida loosely based on the Latin alphabet and invented by Methodist missionary Sam Pollard. Pollard invented the script for use with A ...

, writing system used for Miao languages *

Miao (Unicode block) Miao is a Unicode block containing characters of the Pollard script, used for writing the Hmong Daw and A-Hmao language The A-Hmao language, also known as Large Flowery Miao () or Northeast Yunnan Miao (), is a Hmongic language spoken in China ...

, a block of Unicode characters of the Pollard script * '' Miào'' (庙), a

Chinese temple Chinese temple architecture refer to a type of structures used as place of worship of Chinese Buddhism, Taoism or Chinese folk religion, where people revere ethnic Chinese gods and ancestors. They can be classified as: * '' miào'' () or ''d ...

* Miáo (surname), a Chinese surname written 苗 * Miào (surname), a Chinese surname written 繆 * Miao, Chongming County (庙镇), town in

Chongming District Chongming District () is northernmost district of the provincial-level municipality of Shanghai. Chongming consists of three low-lying inhabited alluvial islands at the mouth of the Yangtze north of the Shanghai peninsula: Chongming, Changx ...

, Shanghai, China * Miao, Changlang, town in Arunachal Pradesh, India *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Miao The Roman Catholic Diocese of Miao ( la, Dioecesis Miaoensis) is a diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Guwahati. It is located in Miao in India. It was created on 7 December 2005, by splitting it from the Diocese of Dibrugarh. Its first b ...

, in India * ''Miao'' (album), album by Candy Lo * " Mr. Miao", a short story by Pu Songling

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