Sha-shih
English
Map including 沙市 SHA-SHIH (SHASI) (AMS, 1953)
Etymology
From Mandarin 沙市 (Shāshì) Wade–Giles romanization: Sha¹-shih⁴.[1]
Proper noun
Sha-shih
- Alternative form of Shashi
- 1892, Antwerp Edgar Pratt, “Sha-shih and Pa-chow”, in To the Snows of Tibet through China, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 54:
- On November 17, the Consul having kindly offered me the use of his house-boat, I went down to Sha-shih, which is eighty miles from Ichang, and being with the current, the journey was made in one day.
- 1900, Bird, Isabella L., The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, volume 1, OCLC 1181731179, OL 14622424M, pages 9-10:
- It is not till the Yangtze reaches Sha-shih that its character completely changes. The first note of change is a great embankment, thirty feet high, which protects the region from inundation. Below Sha-shih the vast river becomes mixed up with a network of lakes and rivers, connected by canals, the area of the important Tungting Lake being over 2000 square miles.
- 1908, Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, A Wandering Student in the Far East, volume 1, William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 4811179, page 60:
- Fortunately on this occasion the steam launch which had been sent forward to explore, at last hit upon an eight-foot passage, and by evening we reached the port of Sha-shih, where, owing to further reports of shallow water ahead, we anchored for the night.
- 1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 11, LCCN 68-10064, OCLC 1036882, page 902, column 1:
- I-ch'ang (q.v.) and Shasi (Sha-shih) farther up the Yangtze in south central Hupeh are important provincial and commercial centres. South of Sha-shih is the Ch'ing-chiang (Kingkiang) flood detention basin or reservoir covering about 350 sq.mi.
- 1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907, →ISBN, LCCN 76-25491, OCLC 993364350, page 16:
- By the middle of June there had been additional disturbances at Chinkiang, Tan-yang, Wu-hsi and Soochow along the Grand Canal, and at Wu-hsueh, Kiukiang and Sha-shih on the Yangtze.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sha-shih.
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Translations
Shashi — see Shashi
References
- Shabad, Theodore (1972), “Index”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, LCCN 71-178868, OCLC 482667885, 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)
Further reading
- Sha-shih at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Sha-shih”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Anagrams
- hashish, shishah