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Shishou

Syllables: Shi·shou

Shishou proper noun: a county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

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...
    • Last month, tens of thousands of residents of Shishou, in Hubei Province, clashed with riot police officers over the mysterious death of a hotel chef.2009 July 17, Edward Wong, “Chinese Question Police Absence in Ethnic Riots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2017, Asia Pacific

Forms of Shishou

alternative formShihshow
alternative formShih-shou

Origin of Shishou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石首 (Shíshǒu).

Questions about Shishou

What does Shishou mean?
Shishou means a county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
What part of speech is Shishou?
Shishou is a proper noun.

Words near Shishou in the dictionary

  1. shishkebob
  2. shishkebobs
  3. shishmahal
  4. shishmahals
  5. shisho
  6. Shishou
  7. shishya
  8. shishyas
  9. Shisler
  10. Shislers
  11. shiso

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