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Yao, Osaka
Yao (八尾市, Yao-shi) is a core city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, east of Osaka City. Founded 1948, area 41.72 km², about 257,000 residents, 9th in the prefecture, known for manufacturing including toothbrushes and ancient kofun tombs.
Yaochufa (要出发周边游)
Yaochufa (要出发周边游, also written 要出发旅行网), legally Guangzhou Kulv Travel Agency, is a Chinese online travel company founded in Guangzhou in 2011, selling weekend package holidays in 300 cities.
Yaofang Shanghai (1药网 subsidiary)
Yaofang Shanghai (壹药网耀方科技) is a Shanghai-based online pharmacy and digital health company, incorporated in 2013 as the principal China operating subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed 111, Inc. (1药网).
Yaogan
Yaogan, meaning "remote sensing," is a series of Chinese satellites first launched in 2006 for the People's Liberation Army, officially described as civilian remote sensing spacecraft.
Yaoguai
Yaoguai (妖怪, yāoguài; Japanese yōkai) is the broad Chinese folklore category of uncanny supernatural beings, animals, plants, or objects with strange powers, historically shifting from ominous phenomena to monsters, and treated more harshly in China than yōkai in Japan.
Yaojiang School
The Yaojiang School (姚江学派) was a school of Confucian learning founded by the Ming philosopher Wang Yangming (Wang Shouren), organized around lecture meetings rather than official institutions.
Yaomei Feng
Yaomei Feng (幺妹峰), or Fourth Girl Peak, is the 6,247.8 m granite main summit of the Siguniang massif in the Qionglai Mountains, Sichuan, China; second highest in Sichuan, first climbed in 1981 by a Japanese Doshisha University team.
Yaomeng power station
Yaomeng power station (姚孟电厂) is a coal-fired power plant in Pingdingshan, Henan, China, opened in 1970 and home to China's first domestically made 300 MW turbine generator.
Yaoshibang (药师帮)
Yaoshibang (药师帮) is a Chinese business-to-business digital pharmaceutical platform founded by Zhang Buzhen in January 2015, connecting drug suppliers with pharmacies and clinics; it listed in Hong Kong in 2023.
Yaoundé
Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon in the Centre Region, founded as the German station Yaunde in 1889; grew from 1.8 million (2005) to 3.32 million (2020), with slums, drainage deficits, and planned BRT transit.
Yaowangcheng Site
尧王城遗址 (Yaowangcheng site), a Neolithic walled settlement in Rizhao, Shandong; type site of the Longshan Yaowangcheng type; nearly 4,000,000 m², discovered 1934, national protection 2006.
Yaowu Jinghua
药物精华 (essence of materia medica): the distilled drug knowledge of the Chinese bencao tradition, from the Shennong Bencao Jing (Eastern Han) through Zheng Lei Bencao, Bencao Pinhui Jingyao, and Bencao Gangmu (1593, 1,892 drugs) to modern digital databases and pharmacodynamic research.
Yaozhou ware
Yaozhou ware (耀州窑) is a Chinese celadon produced from the Tang dynasty at kilns in Tongchuan, Shaanxi, reaching its peak in the Northern Song (960–1127).
Yap
Yap is the westernmost state of the Federated States of Micronesia, midway between Guam and Palau, with four main volcanic islands, about 134 outer atolls, stone money (rai), and heavy US Compact aid.
Yap Ah Loy
Yap Ah Loy (叶亚来) was a Chinese kapitan who served as the third Kapitan Cina of Kuala Lumpur from 1868 and rebuilt the town after the Selangor Civil War.
Yap family
The Yap family is a Manila-based Philippine business family founded by Emilio Yap, whose holdings span Philtrust Bank, Manila Bulletin, the Manila Hotel, and Centro Escolar University.
Yap Trench
Yap Trench (ヤップ海溝), western Pacific trench on the Philippine Sea Plate's southeastern boundary, where the Caroline Plate subducts; ~700 km long, up to 8,946 m deep, marked by Caroline Ridge collision, no active volcanism, and slow convergence.
YAP1
YAP1 (Yes-associated protein, YAP) is a human transcriptional coactivator on 11q22.1, the main nuclear effector of the Hippo pathway, binding TEAD1-4 to control proliferation, mechanotransduction, regeneration, and cancer.
Yapa-Addu (governor of Byblos)
Yapa-Hadda, also written Yapah-Hadda, was the mayor and ruler of Biruta (modern Beirut) during the Amarna period, writing two surviving letters to the Egyptian pharaoh.
Yapa-Hadda
Yapa-Hadda, also known as Yappah-Hadda, was a Canaanite ruler of Beirut in the mid-14th century BC, titled mayor by Egypt but a king to his own subjects, known from the Amarna letters.
Yapacani Gas Field
The Yapacani Gas Field is a natural gas and condensate field in Santa Cruz department, Bolivia. Discovered in 1968, it is operated by YPFB Andina, a subsidiary of the state oil company YPFB.
Yapahu
Yapaḫu, also written Yapahu, was a Canaanite ruler of Gezer in the mid-14th century BC, known from five Amarna letters pleading for Egyptian help against the ʿApiru.
Yapanalai
雅帕纳来 (ᩀᩣ ᨽᩣ ᩃᩣ ᩭ) is a Dai-medicine pill formula, entry 9 in China's second ancient classic formula catalog, from 《档哈雅龙》 with over 1,500 years of stated use; two ingredients, 卵叶巴豆根 and 黑种草子, taken 3–6 pills three times daily.
yApayaos Biosphere Reserve
yApayaos Biosphere Reserve (BRyA), Biosphere Reserve of the yApayaos, a 395,974.56 ha UNESCO biosphere reserve covering Apayao province, northwestern Luzon, Philippines; designated July 5, 2024 as the Philippines' fourth biosphere reserve, home to the Philippine eagle and the Isnag Lapat system.
Yapese Empire
The Yapese Empire was a pre-colonial tribute and exchange network centered on Yap in Micronesia, linking outer Caroline Islands to Yap through the sawei system.
Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto (Yaphet Frederick Kotto, 1939-2021), American actor known as Bond villain Kananga/Mr. Big in Live and Let Die, Parker in Alien, and Lt. Al Giardello on Homicide: Life on the Street; Emmy-nominated for Raid on Entebbe.
Yapı Kredi
Yapı Kredi is a private commercial bank headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Kazım Taşkent in 1944, it is one of Turkey's largest private banks.
Yapparunkalakkarikai
Yapparunkalakkarikai (யாப்பருங்கலக்காரிகை) is a classical Tamil prosody treatise in 44 verses by the Jaina scholar Amitacakarar, composed in the 10th or early 11th century and transmitted with a commentary by Kunacakarar.
Yappu
Yappu (யாப்பு) is the traditional Tamil system of prosody, the branch of Tamil grammar governing meter and versification, described in treatises such as the Tolkappiyam and the 10th-century Yapparunkalam.
Yaprak
Yaprak ("Leaf") was a fortnightly Turkish literary magazine published in Ankara under the poet Orhan Veli Kanık, producing 28 issues from January 1949 to mid-1950.