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Kanji Detail for 竽 - "mouth organ"
竽
- Meaning
竽 means "mouth organ."
Mouth organ - A wind instrument; a flute similar to a sheng with thirty-six pipes.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
ancient woodwind instrument
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
ancient woodwind instrument
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙[sheng1], used in ancient China
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
free reed mouth organ
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A musical instrument. A type of mouth organ. With thirty-six reeds. Nan Guo, a gentleman of the court, played the yu for King Xuan of Qi. Playing together with three hundred people. When King Min ascended, he liked to listen one by one. The gentleman fled. Seen in (Han Feizi). Now saying someone without talent filling a position is called 濫竽充數 (filling a quota with inadequate talent). Based on this.
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