Ko

A KO is a knockout in various sports, such as boxing and martial arts.

K.O., Ko or Kō may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

• KO (musician), Canadian musician who plays a fusion of hip hop and folk music
• K.O. (album), a 2021 album by Danna Paola
• K.O (rapper), South African rapper Ntokozo Mdluli
• Karen O (born 1978), lead singer of the rock group Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Kevin Olusola, American cellist, beatboxer and member of a cappella group Pentatonix
• K.O. (song), a song by Pabllo Vittar
• K.O., a 2008 album by Rize
• "K.O.", a 2004 song by Smujji

Other media

• Ko (Go), in the board game Go
• Ko (film), a 2011 Tamil action movie
• Knight Online, a 2004 online role-playing game

Language

• Ko language
• Ko (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana こ and コ
• ISO 639-1 code for the Korean language

Surname

• Ko (Korean surname)
• Gao (surname), a surname of Chinese origin romanized to Ko in Hong Kong, and in several romanizations especially in South-east Asia
• Ke (surname), a Chinese surname romanized as "Ko" in the Wade–Giles system
• Xu (surname), a surname of Chinese Xu and customarily spelled as Ko

People

• K.O (rapper) South African musician and businessman
• KO (musician), Canadian musician who plays a fusion of hip hop and folk music
• Ko Simpson (born 1983), professional American football player for the Buffalo Bills
• Kevin Owens, Canadian professional wrestler

Places

• Ko Mountain, the second-highest peak in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains of Russia
• Ko. Madhepura, Nepal, a village development committee
• Ko, Lamphun, Thailand, a village and subdistrict
• Kö, an urban boulevard in Düsseldorf, Germany

Science and technology

• Ko, an ancient Chinese weapon also known as a dagger-axe in English
• Kō, a version of the foot plough used by the Māori people
• Gene knockout, a molecular biology genetic technique, abbreviated KO
• Knowledge organization, branch of information science
  • Knowledge Organization, an academic journal published by the International Society for Knowledge Organization
• kilooctet (computing), a unit of information or computer storage
• Loadable kernel module (file extension .ko)
• Real K-theory

Transportation

• Kō Station (Aichi) on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line in Japan
• Kō Station (Tokushima) on the Tokushima Line in Japan
• Alaska Central Express, IATA airline designator

Other uses

• The Coca-Cola Company, stock ticker symbol and corporate internet domain ko.com
• Civic Coalition (Poland), or Koalicja Obywatelska (KO), a Polish electoral alliance
• Knock-off, a counterfeit product
• Kemetic Orthodoxy, a religion
• Contracting Officer, US government acronym KO or CO
• K.O., protagonist in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
• Ko Ukumori, a character in the air combat game The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces
• Dukkha, the concept of unsatisfactoriness in Buddhism
• Kick-off (association football), the time or manner of start of play
• Kō, Japanese for incense; see Japanese incense
  • Kōdō, the art of appreciating Japanese incense
• Momofuku Ko, a New York restaurant

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Ko
• All pages with titles containing Ko
• TKO (disambiguation)
• Kayo (disambiguation)
• Knockout (disambiguation)
• K0 (disambiguation)
• Kou (disambiguation)
• Gong (disambiguation), called Ko in Japanese

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