Shashi

Sha·shi
S1H4A1S1H4I1

proper noun

A district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

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Meanings

Shashi1

proper noun

alternative Shasi · alternative Sha-shih · alternative Shasze

  1. A district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

    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 original on 17 Feb 2022
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    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.

    [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

Shashi2

proper noun

alternative Shasi · alternative Sha-shih · alternative Shasze

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

Origin

Shashi · proper noun

  1. Mandarin沙市
  2. EnglishShashi

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

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Shashi · proper noun

  1. Sanskritशशि
  2. EnglishShashi

Borrowed from Sanskrit शशि (śaśi).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 沙市
  • 沙市 (saa¹ si⁵)district in central China
Chinese Mandarin 沙市
  • 沙市 (Shāshì)district in central China

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Cite this entry
APA

Shashi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shashi

MLA

“Shashi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shashi. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Shashi,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shashi.

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