shēng
small gourd-shaped musical instrument
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 生 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
shēng
small gourd-shaped musical instrument; sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes
Most common words with 笙
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
sheng, a free reed wind instrument, with vertical bamboo pipes | ||
reed-pipe wind instrument | ||
Du Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secret-society leader, banker, industrialist |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3891st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+7B19 |
Shuowen | “笙，十三簧，象鳳之身也。笙，正月之音。物生，故謂之笙。大者謂之巢，小者謂之和。从竹，生聲。古者，隨作笙。” |
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