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Shih-shou

Shih-shou is the alternative form of Shishou.

Meaning of Shishou

Proper noun

Shishou

  1. A county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
    • They strafed Shihshou and along the eastern shore of the great Tungting Lake.[1980, Wanda Cornelius, Thayne Short, “The Twenty-third Fighter Group: November-December 1943”, in Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company...

Origin of Shih-shou

From Mandarin 石首 (Shíshǒu) Wade–Giles romanization: Shih²-shou³.

Questions about Shih-shou

What is Shih-shou the alternative form of?
Shih-shou is the alternative form of Shishou.

Words near Shih-shou in the dictionary

  1. Shih-ching
  2. shih-fu
  3. Shih-ho-tzu
  4. shih-poo
  5. shih-poos
  6. Shih-shou
  7. shih-tzu
  8. Shih-tzu-shan
  9. Shih-yen
  10. Shihadeh
  11. Shihadehs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shih-shou (page history and authors); Shishou (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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