笙

shēng

Meanings

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shēng

1.sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes

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Wiktionary

1.sheng (a Chinese mouth-blown free reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sreŋ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mriŋ (“sound; noise; animal cry”); cognate with 鳴 (OC *mreŋ, “to make a sound”), 鈴 (OC *reːŋ, “bell”), Burmese မြည် (mrany, “to make a sound”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

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Stroke order

Components

笙⺮生

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Derived terms

玉帛笙歌笙歌笙歌匝地笙歌鼎沸笙磬同音笙簧笙詩笙诗葫蘆笙葫芦笙蘆笙芦笙鳳笙凤笙

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Related words

排笙 reed-pipe wind instrument with a keyboard 笙箫 reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute 笙簧 reeds of a panpipe 竹笙 bamboo fungus 芦笙 reed-pipe wind instrument 胡笙 pipe wind instrument introduced from the non-Han peoples in the North and West 笙歌 music and song (formal writing)笙管 pipes of a panpipe 杜月笙 Du Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secret-society leader, banker, industrialist