Yo may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
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Yö
Yö () is a Finland, Finnish rock music, rock band, formed in 1981 in Pori.
The band has had many line-up changes during their history, and almost 20 different musicians play or have played with the band. Yö's first line-up included singer O ...
, a Finnish rock band
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Yo (Excuse Me Miss)
"Yo (Excuse Me Miss)" is a song by American singer Chris Brown. It was written by Johntá Austin along with Dre & Vidal, Andre Harris and Dre & Vidal, Vidal Davis from production duo Dre & Vidal for Brown's Chris Brown (album), self-titled debut ...
", a song by Chris Brown
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Yo! MTV Raps
''Yo! MTV Raps'' is an American two-hour television music video program, which first aired on MTV Europe from 1987 to mid-1990s and on MTV, MTV US from August 1988 to August 1995. The American version of the program (created by Ted Demme and Pe ...
'', a television show featuring rap music, later renamed as Yo!
* "YO", an instrumental song
by Linkin Park from ''LP Underground 11''
* "Yo", a song by
Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché (7 December 1934 – 28 December 2020) was a Mexican musician, singer, composer, actor and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful comp ...
from the album ''A Mi Amor Con Mi Amor'' (1967)
* "Yo", a song by Squarepusher from the album ''
Selection Sixteen'' (1999)
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''Yo'' (album), an album by Inna
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''Yo'' (Alex Greenwald album)
Other media
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''Yo'' (film), a 2015 Mexican film
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Master Yo
''Yin Yang Yo!'' is an animated television series created by Bob Boyle for Jetix. Produced by Walt Disney Television Animation as the third Jetix original series, it first aired on August 26, 2006, as a sneak peek and premiered on September 4, ...
, a fictional character from the Disney/Jetix show ''Yin Yang Yo!''
Language
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Yo (greeting)
''Yo'' is a slang interjection, commonly associated with North American English. It was popularized by the Italian-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1940s.
Although often used as a greeting and often deployed at the ...
, an interjection meaning "hello" or "hey"
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Yo (Cyrillic)
Yo, Jo, or, Io (Ё ё; italics: ''Ё'' ''ё''; ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Unicode, the letter is named CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER IO.
In English, the letter Yo is romanized using the Latin ''ë'' (according to t ...
(Ё, ё), a letter of the Russian and other Cyrillic alphabets
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Yo (kana)
よ, in hiragana or ヨ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one Mora (linguistics), mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana in three. Both represent [].
When small and preceded by an -i kana, ...
, the romanisation of the Japanese kana よ and ヨ
* The Spanish Spanish pronouns, first person nominative pronoun (translates as ''I'' or ''me'')
* ISO 639-1 code for the
Yoruba language
Yoruba (, ; Yor. ) is a Niger–Congo languages, Niger-Congo language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in South West (Nigeria), Southwestern and Middle Belt, Central Nigeria, Benin, and parts of Togo. It is spoken by the Yoruba people. ...
, a dialect continuum of western Africa
Other uses
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Yō
Yō, Yo, You or Yoh is a unisex (usually masculine) Japanese given name.
Written forms
Yō can be written using different kanji characters. Some examples:
*洋, "ocean"
*羊, "sheep"
*瑶, "precious stone"
*陽, "sunshine"
*容, "contain"
*� ...
, a Japanese given name
* A US Navy hull classification symbol:
Fuel oil barge, self propelled (YO)
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Yo (app)
Yo was a social mobile application for iOS, Android, and formerly also Windows Phone. Initially, the application's only function was to send the user's friends the word " yo" as a text and audio notification, but was then updated to enable users ...
, a social application
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YO! Sushi
YO! Sushi (sometimes shortened to just YO!) is a chain of Kiosk, kiosks and conveyor belt sushi restaurants, principally in the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Australia.
History
YO! Sushi was fo ...
, a chain of sushi restaurants
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Special Region of Yogyakarta
The Special Region of Yogyakarta is a province-level special region of Indonesia in southern Java. It is a semi-enclave that is surrounded by on the landward side by Central Java Province to the west, north, and east, but has a long coastline ...
, Indonesia (ISO 3166-2 code ID-YO)
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YO postcode area
The YO postcode area, also known as the York postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 29 postcode districts in Yorkshire, England, within ten post towns. These cover most of Central and Eastern North Yorkshir ...
, England
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Yo-leven
Craps is a dice game in which players bet on the outcomes of the roll of a pair of dice. Players can wager money against each other (playing " street craps") or against a bank (" casino craps"). Because it requires little equipment, "street ...
, a roll of 11 in the game of craps
* Y
O, a strain of
potato virus Y
Potato virus Y (PVY) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family ''Potyviridae'', and one of the most important plant viruses affecting potato production.
PVY infection of potato plants results in a variety of symptoms depending on the viral str ...
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Yttrium(II) oxide
Yttrium(II) oxide or yttrium monoxide is a chemical compound with the formula YO. This chemical compound was first created in its solid form by pulsed laser deposition, using yttrium(III) oxide as the target at 350 °C. The film was deposited on ...
, YO, a dark brown chemical compound
* "years old", an informal
abbreviation
An abbreviation () is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening (linguistics), shortening, contraction (grammar), contraction, initialism (which includes acronym), or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened for ...
for a person's age
See also
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Yoism, an open source religion
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Yo-yo (disambiguation)
A yo-yo is a toy.
Yo-yo may also refer to:
People
* Yo-Yo (rapper) (born 1971), American hip hop artist
* Yo-Yo Davalillo (1931–2013), Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
* Yo Yo Honey Singh (born 1983), Indian rapper, singer and music ...
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Whyos
The Whyos or Whyos Gang, a collection of the various post–Civil War street gangs of New York City, was the city's dominant street gang during the mid-late 19th century. The gang controlled most of Manhattan from the late 1860s until the earl ...
, slang for mobsters
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