Ho
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Ho (or the transliterations He or Heo) may refer to:
People
[edit]Language and ethnicity
[edit]- Ho people, an ethnic group of India
- Ho language, a tribal language in India
- Hani people, or Ho people, an ethnic group in China, Laos and Vietnam
- Hiri Motu, ISO 639-1 language code ho
- Ho (Armenian letter), a letter of the Armenian script
Names
[edit]- Ho (Korean name), a family name, given name, and an element in two-syllable given names
- Heo, also romanised as Hŏ, a Korean family name
- Ho (Korean: 호; Hanja: 號); the Korean term for an art name (or "pen name")
- Hồ (surname), a Vietnamese surname
- He (surname), or Ho, the romanised transliteration of several Chinese family names
- Hè (surname), also romanised as Ho, a Chinese surname
People with the surname
[edit]- Adrianne Ho, Canadian model, designer, and businesswoman
- Cassey Ho (born 1987), American social media fitness entrepreneur
- Coco Ho (born 1991), American surfer
- Derek Ho (1964—2020), Hawaiian surfer
- Don Ho (1930–2007), American musician
- Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969), Vietnamese political leader
- Michael Ho (born 1957), American surfer
- Sornsawan Ho (born 1993), Thai member of the Scout Movement
Places
[edit]- Ho, Denmark
- Ho Municipal, a district in Ghana
Science and technology
[edit]- Tasmanian Herbarium, Index herbariorum code HO
- ho-mobile, an Italian telecommunications company owned by Vodafone
- Holmium, symbol Ho, a chemical element
- Hoxnian (Ho I to Ho IV), a stage of the geological history of the British Isles
- Hydroxyl radical, •OH, chemical formula HO
- Heterotopic ossification, a process by which bone tissue forms outside of the skeleton
- Harmonic oscillator, an elementary physical model of a particle in a square potential
- Hypothalamic obesity
Other uses
[edit]- Ho!, a 1968 French-Italian crime film
- Hō (EP), a 2001 EP by Maximum the Hormone
- Ho (kana), a part of the Japanese writing system
- Handelsorganisation, a state-owned retail business of the former German Democratic Republic
- Head office, or headquarters
- HO scale, a rail transport modelling scale
- Antinea Airlines, a former Algerian airline, IATA airline code HO
- Juneyao Airlines, a Chinese airline, IATA airline code HO
- Slang for a whore or sexually loose woman