Chinese Character Wiki

簫

xiāo

bamboo flute

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 肅 represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

肅 sound component

肅  Sound component

sù

  

pay respects

Evolution

簫 Bronze script Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
簫 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
簫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
簫 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
簫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

箫 (簫) 

xiāo

musical instrument like pan-pipes, bamboo flute; xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes

Most common words with 簫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

箫

xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes

排箫

xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes

吹箫

to busk

吴市吹箫

to beg while playing the xiao 箫 (mouth organ)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sˤiw

sew

xiāo

pan-pipe


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

19

Simplified

箫

Unicode

U+7C2B

Shuowen

“簫，參差，管樂。象鳳之翼。从竹，肅聲。”


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