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Ku-shih

Ku-shih is the alternative form of Gushi.

Meaning of Gushi

Proper noun

Gushi

  1. A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
    • The provenance of ant nose money is widely spread. The best known finds are those made at the Ch’i-ssŭ-li village in Ku-shih County in southeastern Honan.⁸¹[1951, Wang Yü-ch’üan, “Money Before Coinage — Cowries and their Imitations”, in Early Chinese Coinage, New York: Sanford J. Durst Numismatic Publications, published 1980, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79

Origin of Ku-shih

From Mandarin 固始 (Gùshǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Ku⁴-shih³.

Questions about Ku-shih

What is Ku-shih the alternative form of?
Ku-shih is the alternative form of Gushi.

Words near Ku-shih in the dictionary

  1. Ku-Kluxing
  2. Ku-ling
  3. Ku-ring-gai
  4. Ku-ring-gai Chase
  5. Ku-shan
  6. Ku-shih
  7. Ku-su
  8. kuai
  9. Kuaichi
  10. Kuaiji
  11. Kuajok

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ku-shih (page history and authors); Gushi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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