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Shaohing

Shaohing is the dated 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 Shaohing

Borrowed from Mandarin 紹興 /绍兴 (Shàoxīng).

Questions about Shaohing

What is Shaohing the dated form of?
Shaohing is the dated form of Shaoxing.

Words near Shaohing in the dictionary

  1. Shao-lin
  2. Shao-shan
  3. shaobing
  4. Shaodongian
  5. Shaoguan
  6. Shaohing
  7. Shaohsing
  8. shaojiu
  9. Shaokuan
  10. Shaolin
  11. Shaoling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shaohing (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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