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shō

shō is the alternative spelling of sho.

Meaning of sho

Noun (1)

sho (plural shos)

  1. A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the Chinese sheng.
    • The arrangement of pipes symbolizes the folded wings of the mythical phoenix, whose cry the shō's sound is said to represent.2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 120

Noun (2)

sho (plural shos)

  1. A letter of the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language: uppercase Ϸ, lowercase ϸ.

Forms of shō

pluralshōs

Questions about shō

What is shō the alternative spelling of?
Shō is the alternative spelling of sho.

Words near shō in the dictionary

  1. shāhs
  2. shāhzāda
  3. Shānxi
  4. Shīʻism
  5. Shīʻite
  6. shō
  7. shōchikubai
  8. shōchū
  9. shōchūs
  10. shōgun
  11. shōgunal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shō (page history and authors); sho (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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