English Explanatory Dictionary

Shek

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Cantonese.

Word forms

Shek Sheks

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 石 (sek⁶), when the initial was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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