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Yayu.
n.  a malevolent creature from Chinese mythology, a maneater appearing “as a god with a snake’s body and a human face” who makes the sounds of a baby (Richard E. Strassberg, A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas).


n.  a populated place in Ethiopia.


n.  a Zen Buddhist poet, as discussed in Zen Art for Meditation by Horioka Holmes.


yayu.
n.  an outdoor Korean mask dance “from the region east of the Naktong River” (Peter H. Lee, A History of Korean Literature).


Yayu.
n.  the Hindu god of air and wind (variant spelling of “Vayu”).


Ye.
n.  a populated place in Benin.


n.  a populated place in Burkina Faso.


n.  a populated place in Indonesia.


n.  a populated place in the Canarias region of Spain.


n.  a populated place in the Mon State region of Myanmar (formerly Burma).



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