Look up sha in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sha or SHA may refer to:
Places
edit- Sha County, Fujian, China
- Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, (IATA code)
- Sia, Cyprus, also spelled Sha
- Sagamihara Housing Area, an army installation in Japan
- Vehicle registration plates in the district Schwäbisch Hall and the town Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
People and language
edit- Sha (surname)
- Sha (singer) (born 1979), German singer
- Sha Fei (1912–1950), Chinese photojournalist
- Sha language
- Sha (Cyrillic) (Ш, ш), a Cyrillic letter
- Śa (Indic), a character in Brahmic scripts that originally represented a voiceless postalveolar/alveolo-palatal fricative /ʃ~ɕ/ (modern pronunciation varies by language)
- Ṣa (Indic), a character in Brahmic scripts that originally represented a voiceless retroflex fricative /ʂ/ (modern pronunciation varies by language)
Government and organizations
edit- Maryland State Highway Administration
- Strategic health authorities, a former type of administrative organisation of the NHS in England
- Saskatchewan Hockey Association, now known as Hockey Saskatchewan
- Secondary Heads Association, now the Association of School and College Leaders
- Society for Historical Archaeology
- The Socialist Health Association, a left-wing English medical association affiliated with the Labour Party.
History
editScience and technology
edit- Secure Hash Algorithms, SHA-0 to SHA-3
- Shorthand abstraction, a term presented in the 2007 book What Is Intelligence? by James R. Flynn
- Sidereal hour angle, in astronomy
- Intel SHA extensions
- Measure of material hardness using a Shore A type Shore durometer
Other uses
edit- Sha (animal), the totemic animal of the Egyptian god Set
- Sha (comics), a French comic by Pat Mills
- Shareholders' agreement, or stockholders' agreement
- Stableford Handicap Adjustment, a component of the Golf Australia Handicap System