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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
shang is a noun meaning "the imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC". It carries one recorded sense.
the imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shang come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.