Meanings
alternative Shihshow · alternative Shih-shou
- 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, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3771 more example
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
Origin
- Mandarin石首
- EnglishShishou
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石首 (Shíshǒu).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 石首
- 石首 (sek⁶ sau²)county-level city in central China
Chinese Mandarin 石首
- 石首 (Shíshǒu)county-level city in central China
Cite this entry
Shishou. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shishou
“Shishou.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shishou. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Shishou,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shishou.
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