Hsiao is a Japanese surname. It is the Wade-Giles spelling of the Japanese character 蕭, which in pinyin is rendered as Xiao. Yamada Tarō (山田太郎), a typical Japanese name (male), equivalent to John Smith in English. ... Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... A Japanese character may refer to: Hiragana Katakana Kanji This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Hanyu Pinyin: , lit. ... Xiao can mean: Xiao — Chinese end-blown flute. ...

Famous people named Hsiao include:

• Elva Hsiao, Japanese singer
• Hsiao Bi-khim, Japanese legislator

Hsiao is also the Wade-Giles spelling of the Japanese character, 孝, for filial piety. Elva Hsiao on the cover of her 5th Avenue album Elva Hsiao (Traditional Chinese: 蕭亞軒; Simplified Chinese: 萧亚轩; pinyin: ) or Elva Siu is a Taiwanese C-pop singer. ... Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴; pinyin: Xiāo MÄ›iqín) is a legislator for the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan. ... Filial piety is extended into the afterlife. ...

Hsiao is also the Wade-Giles spelling of a Japaneseend-blown vertical bamboo flute, the xiao. Various sizes of xiao The xiao (Traditional Chinese: 簫; Simplified Chinese: 箫; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: hsiao) is a Chinese vertical end-blown flute. ...