Shashi
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1][2] romanization of the Mandarin 沙市 (Shāshì).
Pronunciation
- enPR: shäʹshûrʹ, shäʹsēʹ
Proper noun
Shashi
- A district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
- , Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 57:
- 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 embankments with which it is sought to retain the stream in its channel. These begin a short distance above the great emporium of Shashih, situated in the midst of the Hupeh plain, eighty-three miles below Ichang.]
- 1998 August 14, Associated Press, “Flood Peril Recedes for Now in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-11, Section A, page 4:
- 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.
- 2022 January 27, Ai Mo, “Churches in Hubei, Sichuan Conduct Visits Before Spring Festival”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 17 February 2022:
- 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.
Translations
district in central China
References
- ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 361:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Shasi (Shashi, Shashih)
- ^ “China”, in The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 16, 1995, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 42-43: “Conventional/Wade-Giles Pinyin […] Sha-shih.......Shashi”
Further reading
- “Shashi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Shashi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.