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Shashi

Syllables: Sha·shi

Shashi proper noun: a district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

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
    • State-run China Central Television said a flood crest hit Shashi in central Hubei province at 147 feet, just eight inches short of the level that would have required levees to be blasted and the flooding of the homes of as many as 330,000 people.1998 August 14, Associated Press, “Flood Peril Recedes for Now in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2023, Section A, page 4

Proper noun (2)

Shashi

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

Examples of Shashi in a sentence

  • These begin a short distance above the great emporium of Shashih, situated in the midst of the Hupeh plain, eighty-three miles below Ichang.[1905, Archibald Little, “The Middle Basin: Part I. The Yangtse River”, in The Far East, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 57:
  • In January, pastors from Shashi Church in Jingzhou, Hubei, and leaders of gathering sites paid visits to nursing homes, families in need, and rural households in the suburbs.2022 January 27, Ai Mo, “Churches in Hubei, Sichuan Conduct Visits Before Spring Festival”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the...

Forms of Shashi

alternative formShasi
alternative formSha-shih
alternative formShasze

Origin of Shashi

c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沙市 (Shāshì).

Borrowed from Sanskrit शशि (śaśi).

Questions about Shashi

What does Shashi mean?
Shashi means a district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
How do you use Shashi in a sentence?
These begin a short distance above the great emporium of Shashih, situated in the midst of the Hupeh plain, eighty-three miles below Ichang.
What part of speech is Shashi?
Shashi is a proper noun.

Words near Shashi in the dictionary

  1. shash
  2. Shashamane
  3. Shashank
  4. shashed
  5. shashes
  6. Shashi
  7. shashia
  8. shashias
  9. shashing
  10. Shashiprabha
  11. shashiya

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