sho

See also shō

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ʃəʊ/, X-SAMPA: /S@U/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ʃoʊ/, X-SAMPA: /SoU/
• Homophone: show
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Etymology 1

Phonetic Southern US dialectal spelling of sure.

Adverb

sho (not comparable)

1. (US, dialect, South, African American Vernacular) nonstandard spelling of sure, based on dialectal pronunciation

Etymology 2

From Japanese 笙 (shō).

Noun

Wikipedia sho (plural shos)

1. A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng.

Translations

East Asian reed pipe

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 笙 (cmn) (shēng), (archaic) 笙簧 (cmn) (shēnghuáng)

• Japanese: 笙 (ja) (shō)
• Korean: 소 (ko) (so)

Etymology 3

Wikipedia sho (plural shos)

Of modern scholarly coinage.

1. A letter of the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language: uppercase Ϸ, lowercase ϸ.

Anagrams

• HOS, Hos., hos, ohs, Osh, soh

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Italian

Noun

Wikipedia ^it

sho m and f (invariable)

1. sho (Greek letter)

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Japanese

Romanization

sho

1. See しょ
2. See ショ