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Kanji Detail for 笙 - "reed organ, sheng, delicate"
笙
- Meaning
笙 means "reed organ, sheng, delicate."
Reed organ - A traditional wind instrument.
Sheng - A Chinese mouth organ.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
a reed instrument
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
small gourd-shaped musical instrument
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes
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. Anciently made from a gourd. Altogether thirteen pipes. Pipes arranged in a gourd. Reeds installed at the pipe ends. Blown to produce sound. | A mat. 桃笙. Refers to a mat made of peach bamboo.
- Onyomi
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