One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.
Source: tatoeba (1730)
Shanghai
//ˈʃæŋ.haɪ//
Synonyms for "shanghai" (55 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (27)
Verb(2 words)
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Proper Noun(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
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More general
4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
7 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesmeronym
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
part of
1 entriesrelated to
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
Translations
77 translations across 55 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- شانقهاي name (Chinese municipality and port)
- شَانْغْخَاي name (Chinese municipality and port)
- شَانْغْهَاي name (Chinese municipality and port)
Armenian
1 entries- Շանհայ name (Chinese municipality and port)
Belarusian
1 entries- Шанха́й name (Chinese municipality and port)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Шанха́й name (Chinese municipality and port)
Burmese
1 entries- ရှန်ဟိုင်း name (Chinese municipality and port)
Catalan
1 entries- Xangai name (Chinese municipality and port)
Chinese
1 entries- 上海 name (Chinese municipality and port)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 上海 name (Chinese municipality and port)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 上海 name (Chinese municipality and port)
- 沪 name (Chinese municipality and port)
- 申 name (Chinese municipality and port)
- 申城 name (Chinese municipality and port)
Czech
1 entries- Šanghaj name (Chinese municipality and port)
Danish
1 entries- shanghaje verb (to force or trick into work, especially joining a ship)
Dutch
2 entries- Sjanghai name (Chinese municipality and port)
- sjanghaaien verb (to force or trick into work, especially joining a ship)
Esperanto
1 entries- Ŝanhajo name (Chinese municipality and port)
Finnish
2 entries- Shanghai name (Chinese municipality and port)
- shanghaijata verb (to force or trick into work, especially joining a ship)
French
2 entries- Shanghaï name (Chinese municipality and port)
- shangaïer verb (to force or trick into work, especially joining a ship)
Georgian
1 entries- შანჰაი name (Chinese municipality and port)
German
2 entries- Schanghai name (Chinese municipality and port)
- schanghaien verb (to force or trick into work, especially joining a ship)
Greek
1 entries- Σανγκάη name (Chinese municipality and port)
Hebrew
1 entries- שַׁאנְגחָאי name (Chinese municipality and port)
Hindi
1 entries- शंघाई name (Chinese municipality and port)
Hungarian
2 entries- Sanghaj name (Chinese municipality and port)
- elrabol verb (to force or trick into work, especially joining a ship)
Icelandic
1 entries- Sjanghæ name (Chinese municipality and port)
Ido
1 entries- Shanghai name (Chinese municipality and port)
Irish
2 entries- Shang-hai name (Chinese municipality and port)
- shanghai-áil verb (to force or trick into work, especially joining a ship)
Italian
2 entries- Shanghai name (Chinese municipality and port)
- arruolare a forza verb (to force or trick into work, especially joining a ship)
Japanese
2 entries- シャンハイ name (Chinese municipality and port)
- 上海 name (Chinese municipality and port)
Korean
2 entries- 상하이 name (Chinese municipality and port)
- 상해 name (Chinese municipality and port)
Latin
4 entries- Sanghaevum name (Chinese municipality and port)
- Schianghai name (Chinese municipality and port)
- Sciamhaevum name (Chinese municipality and port)
- Siamhaevum name (Chinese municipality and port)
Latvian
1 entries- Šanhaja name (Chinese municipality and port)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Šanchajus name (Chinese municipality and port)
Lü
1 entries- ᦉᦱᧂᧈᦆᦻ name (Chinese municipality and port)
Macedonian
1 entries- Ша́нгај name (Chinese municipality and port)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡧᠠᠩ ᡥᠠᡳ name (Chinese municipality and port)
Occitan
2 entries- Shangai name (Chinese municipality and port)
- Shanghai name (Chinese municipality and port)
Persian
1 entries- شانگهای name (Chinese municipality and port)
Polish
1 entries- Szanghaj name (Chinese municipality and port)
Portuguese
1 entries- Xangai name (Chinese municipality and port)
Russian
1 entries- Шанха́й name (Chinese municipality and port)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- Ша̀нгај name (Chinese municipality and port)
Slovak
1 entries- Šanghaj name (Chinese municipality and port)
Slovene
1 entries- Šanghaj name (Chinese municipality and port)
Spanish
2 entries- Shanghái name (Chinese municipality and port)
- emborrachar verb (to force or trick into work, especially joining a ship)
Swedish
1 entries- sjanghaja verb (to force or trick into work, especially joining a ship)
Tamil
1 entries- சாங்காய் name (Chinese municipality and port)
Telugu
1 entries- షాంఘై name (Chinese municipality and port)
Thai
1 entries- เซี่ยงไฮ้ name (Chinese municipality and port)
Turkish
1 entries- Şanghay name (Chinese municipality and port)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Шанха́й name (Chinese municipality and port)
Urdu
1 entries- شنگھائی name (Chinese municipality and port)
Uyghur
1 entries- شاڭخەي name (Chinese municipality and port)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Thượng Hải name (Chinese municipality and port)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 上海 name (Chinese municipality and port)
Xibe
2 entries- Šàngaj name (Chinese municipality and port)
- ᡧᠠᡢ ᡥᠠᡞ name (Chinese municipality and port)
Yiddish
1 entries- שאַנכײַ name (Chinese municipality and port)
Zhuang
1 entries- Sanghaij name (Chinese municipality and port)
Sample sentences
31 total sentences available.
The last time I went to China, I visited Shanghai.
Source: tatoeba (58053)
Two passenger trains crashed in Shanghai.
Source: tatoeba (268294)
There are many more beautiful ladies in Shanghai than in Tokyo.
Source: tatoeba (268295)
Showing 4 of 31 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.