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Wangshu

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ95989823
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Wangshu or Wang-Shu or variation, may refer to:

Places

Former Shu (907-925 Chinese: 王蜀; pinyin: Wang-Shu; lit. 'Shu King(dom)'), a former country of the 10 Kingdoms, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history

Wangshu (extinguished 563 BC; Chinese: 王叔 (王叔国); ㄨㄤˊ ㄕㄨ) a former country in Chinese history during the Spring and Autumn period

Wangshu, Hebei (Chinese: 望树镇), Yanshan, Hebei, China; a town; see List of township-level divisions of Hebei

HD 173416 b (planet), Star Xihe, Constellation Lyra; an exoplanet named after the Chinese goddess 望舒 who drives the moon

People

Wang Shu (born 1963; Chinese: 王澍; Shu Wang), Chinese architect

Wang Shu (3rd century BC; Chinese: 王述; Shu Wang), grandson of Wang Chang (Three Kingdoms)

Duke Wen of Wangshu (died 624 BC; Chinese: 王叔文公), son of King Xi of Zhou

Wang Shu (Eastern Jin) (Chinese: 王舒), cousin of Wang Dun and Wang Dao

Dai Wangshu (1905–1950; Chinese: 戴望舒; pinyin: Dài Wàngshū; Wade–Giles: Tai Wang-shu), Chinese poet

Wangnam Wangshu, an Indian politician

Other uses

Wangshu (Chinese: 望舒; a.k.a. Xian'e meaning beauty), Chinese goddess who drives the Moon across the sky in Chinese mythology

Wanshū (Japanese: ワンシュー) a.k.a.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 1905, 1950—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wangshu, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q95989823. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1963, 1905 and 1950.

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This entry incorporates text from Wangshu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.