Shao (;
Cantonese Romanisation: Shiu;
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shaw) is a common
Chinese family name. It is the 86th most populous family name in China. It corresponds to last name
So in Korean; "Thiệu" or "Thiều" in Vietnamese; “Zau” in Wu Chinese/Shanghainese and Siu, Chow, or Sho in other Chinese romanisations. The origin of the family name Shao is thought to have come from the royal lines of the
Zhou Dynasty
The Zhou dynasty ( ; Old Chinese ( B&S): *''tiw'') was a royal dynasty of China that followed the Shang dynasty. Having lasted 789 years, the Zhou dynasty was the longest dynastic regime in Chinese history. The military control of China by ...
in ancient China. The King's loyal subject
Duke of Shao (召公), was thought to have originated the Shao lines.
Notable people
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Shao Yong (邵雍; 1011–1077), philosopher, cosmologist, poet and historian who greatly influenced the development of Neo-Confucianism in China during the Song dynasty
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Shao Mi (邵弥); ca. 1592-1642 Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty
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Shao Jiayi 邵佳一 Chinese soccer player
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Shao Ning (born 1982), Chinese judoka
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Shao Xunmei a.k.a
Zau Sinmay Chinese poet and publisher.
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Shao Tong
On September 26, 2014, police found a body later identified as 19-year-old Shao Tong (, November 1994 – September 2014), a Chinese undergraduate at Iowa State University (ISU), in the trunk of a car registered in her name parked in an apartmen ...
(1994–2014), Chinese student murdered in Iowa
*The Shaw brothers:
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Runje Shaw (1896–1975)
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Runde Shaw (1899–1973)
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Runme Shaw (1901–1985)
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Run Run Shaw (1907–2014)
* Shao Yunhuan (邵云环), Chinese journalist killed in the 1999
United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
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Ivy Shao (邵雨薇; pinyin: Shao Yu Wei) is a Taiwanese actress
Fictional Characters
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Shao Kahn Emperor of Outworld in the
Mortal Kombat universe.
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Chinese-language surnames
Individual Chinese surnames