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Sha-shih

Sha-shih is the alternative form of Shashi.

Meaning of Shashi

Proper noun (1)

Shashi

  1. A district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
    • The stream first emerges from the mountains at the Ichang gorge, 960 nautical miles from its mouth : and some fifty miles below this point the boulders and gravel of the upper river give place to banks of soft alluvium, the outline of which varies every season, notwithstanding the gigantic...[1905, Archibald Little, “The Middle Basin: Part I. The Yangtse River”, in The Far East, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 57

Proper noun (2)

Shashi

  1. A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.

Origin of Sha-shih

From Mandarin 沙市 (Shāshì) Wade–Giles romanization: Sha¹-shih⁴.

Questions about Sha-shih

What is Sha-shih the alternative form of?
Sha-shih is the alternative form of Shashi.

Words near Sha-shih in the dictionary

  1. Sha'aban
  2. Sha'anxi
  3. Sha'ban
  4. sha'n't
  5. sha'not
  6. Sha-shih
  7. shaadi
  8. shaadis
  9. shaal
  10. Shaan-Gan-Ning
  11. Shaanbei

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sha-shih (page history and authors); Shashi (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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