Shu

//ʃuː//

"Shu" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Shu, you're eating too much. You'll get fat!

Mu shu pork is my speciality.

By the way, the pastry known as "Shu Cream" in Japan is not known under this name neither in England nor in France. If you ask for a "Shu Cream" in England, you will end up comically receiving shoe shine.

My name is Shu.

The Four Great Classical Novels of China are Journey to the West (西遊記, Xī Yóu Jì), Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義, Sānguó Yǎnyì), Water Margin (水滸傳, Shuǐhǔ Zhuàn), and Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢, Hóng Lóu Mèng).

Women developed the phonetic script called "nu shu," or "female writing," centuries ago in Jiangyong County, Hunan province. They used it to communicate with close friends, who were often sent to distant villages after their marriages.

"I interviewed a lot of people there, including a woman, who, at that time, was the oldest living 'nu shu' writer. She was 96-years-old when I met her, very tiny, very frail," she said. "Her skin was like tissue paper. She had bound feet."

There appears to be some noticeable artifacts of Chinese in modern Mandarin and modern Japanese, because "Tu shu guan" and "To sho kan" both mean "library" in those languages, respectively.

He picked a fight on the yard and got himself put into the SHU the day before my release.

Historians know relatively little about the Sanxingdui culture, which left behind no written records or human remains, though many believe it to be part of the ancient kingdom of Shu. It's hoped the latest finds will shed light on the kingdom, which ruled in the western Sichuan basin along the upper stream of the Yangtze River until it was conquered in 316 BC.

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