| xiāo | mournful/desolate/surname Xiao |
| 萧 | surname Xiao |
| 萧一山 | Xiao Yishan (1902-1978), Modern historian of the Qing dynasty |
| 萧万长 | Vincent C. Siew (1939-), Taiwanese diplomat and Kuomintang politician, prime minister 1997-2000, vice-president from 2008 |
| 萧乾 | Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator |
| 萧伯特 | Shaw (George Bernard, 1856-1950, Irish-born writer, considered the most significant British dramatist since Shakespeare. In addition to being a prolific playwright, he was also the most trenchant pamphleteer since the Irish-born satirist Jonathan Swift a |
| 萧伯纳 | George Bernard Shaw |
| 萧县 | Xiao county in Suzhou 宿州 |
| 萧墙 | screen wall |
| 萧墙之祸 | internal strife; trouble arising at home |
| 萧子显 | Xiao Zixian (487-537), writer and historian of Liang of Southern Dynasties, compiler of History of Qi of the Southern dynasties 南齊書 南齐书 |
| 萧山 | Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou city 杭州市 |
| 萧山区 | Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou city 杭州市 |
| 萧条 | bleak desolate (economic) depression or slump |
| 萧梁 | Liang of the Southern dynasties (502-557) |
| 萧然 | desolate; empty |
| 萧瑟 | to rustle in the air to rustle to sough |
| 萧疏 | desolate; sparse; thinly scattered |
| 萧索 | bleak desolate melancholy |
| 萧红 | Xiao Hong (1911-1942), prominent woman writer, originally from Heilongjiang |
| 萧萧 | rustle; whistling |