xiāo
bamboo flute
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 肃 represents the sound. Simplified form of 簫.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 箫
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes | ||
xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes | ||
to busk | ||
to beg while playing the xiao 箫 (mouth organ) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.9130% of movies
3029th most common character in movies
3634th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7BAB |
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