Shishou

See also: shīshou and Shíshòu

English

Alternative forms

• Shihshow (Postal Romanization)
• Shih-shou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Shishou

1. A county-level city in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
   • [1980, Wanda Cornelius, Thayne Short, “The Twenty-third Fighter Group: November-December 1943”, in Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945‎^[1], Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 377:

     They strafed Shihshou and along the eastern shore of the great Tungting Lake.]

   • 2009 July 17, Edward Wong, “Chinese Question Police Absence in Ethnic Riots”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-23, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     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.

Translations

county-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石首 (zh) (Shíshǒu)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can