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Shao-hsing

Shao-hsing is the alternative form of Shaoxing.

Meaning of Shaoxing

Proper noun

Shaoxing

  1. A prefecture-level city in eastern Zhejiang, China, along the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay, the site of the former capitals of the Yue kingdom and Kuaiji Commandery.
    • Now, demand is waning in the United States, and Shaoxing, a coastal city that is one of the world’s biggest textile centers, has fallen victim to the global downturn.2009 February 27, David Barboza, “A Textile Capital of China Is Hobbled by a Downturn Gone Global”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2011, World Business

Origin of Shao-hsing

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 紹興 (Shao⁴-hsing¹).

Questions about Shao-hsing

What is Shao-hsing the alternative form of?
Shao-hsing is the alternative form of Shaoxing.

Words near Shao-hsing in the dictionary

  1. Shanyin
  2. shanzhai
  3. shanzhiside
  4. Shanzhou
  5. Shao
  6. Shao-hsing
  7. Shao-kuan
  8. Shao-lin
  9. Shao-shan
  10. shaobing
  11. Shaodongian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shao-hsing (page history and authors); Shaoxing (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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