Hao or HAO may refer to:

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Hao (surname) Hao is the Standard Chinese, Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character, Chinese characters. It is listed 77th in the Song dynasty Chinese classics, classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. A ...

(Chinese: ) * Hao (given name) * Hao (video gamer), Chinese professional ''Dota 2'' player * Heather O'Reilly, Professional soccer player

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* Hao (city), or Haojing (), capital of the Western Zhou, near present-day Xi'an **

Xi'an Xi'an is the list of capitals in China, capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populou ...

, China, derived from the ancient city *

Hao (French Polynesia) Hao, or Haorangi, is a large coral atoll in the central part of the Tuamotu Archipelago. It has c. 1000 people living on . It was used to house the military support base for the nuclear tests on Mururoa. Because of its shape, French explorer L ...

, an atoll ** Hao Airport *

Hao Prefecture Haozhou or Hao Prefecture () was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Fengyang County, Anhui, China. It existed (intermittently) from 582 to 1367. Geography The administrative region of Haozhou in the Tang dynasty is in ...

(), of imperial China * Hao River, in Thailand * Butler County Regional Airport IATA code

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Art name An art name (pseudonym or pen name), also known by its native names ''hào'' (in Mandarin Chinese), ''gō'' (in Japanese), ' (in Korean), and ''tên hiệu'' (in Vietnamese), is a professional name used by artists, poets and writers in the Sinosp ...

(Chinese: , ''hào'') * Hakö language, spoken in Papua New Guinea * hào, a disused monetary subunit of the

Vietnamese đồng The dong (; ; ; sign: ₫ or informally đ and sometimes Đ in Vietnamese; code: VND) is the currency of Vietnam, in use since 3 May 1978. It is issued by the State Bank of Vietnam. The dong was also the currency of the predecessor states of ...

* , a fictional character and the main antagonist in the manga and anime ''Shaman King'' *

High Altitude Observatory The High Altitude Observatory (HAO) is a laboratory of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). HAO operates the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory on Hawaii (island), Hawaii and a research institute in Boulder, Colorado. Its staff condu ...

High Armanen Order Ariosophy and Armanism are esoteric ideological systems that were largely developed by Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List, respectively, in Austria between 1890 and 1930. The term 'Ariosophy', which translates to ''wisdom of the Arya ...

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Rauvolfia sandwicensis ''Rauvolfia sandwicensis'', the devil's-pepper, also known as ''hao'' in the Hawaiian language, is a species of flowering plant in the milkweed family, Apocynaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. It is a shrub, a small tree reaching in height, or, ...

'' (Hawaiian: '), a flowering plant *

Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO) is an enzyme found in the prokaryotic genus '' Nitrosomonas.'' It plays a critically important role in the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle as part of the metabolism of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. The substrate is ...

, an enzyme involved in the nitrogen cycle

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