Etymology

sho

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Today it means: A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the Chinese sheng. Full definition →

Japanese 笙
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sho · noun1

  1. Japanese · borrowed from笙
  2. English todaysho

Borrowed from Japanese 笙 (shō).

sho · noun2

Of modern scholarly coinage. From its Bactrian pronunciation /ʃ/, and the final omricon (ο) found at the end of almost all Bactrian words.

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