笙
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Translingual
Han character
笙 (radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹手一 (HHQM), four-corner 88104, composition ⿱⺮生)
- a sheng; a hand-held free-reed mouth organ made from a dried gourd and 13 or more bamboo pipes
References
- KangXi: page 879, character 29
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25913
- Dae Jaweon: page 1307, character 21
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2955, character 6
- Unihan data for U+7B19
Chinese
simp. and trad. |
笙 |
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Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (生) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
猜 | *sʰlɯː |
輤 | *sʰleːns |
綪 | *sʰleːns, *ʔsreːŋ |
倩 | *sʰleːns, *sʰleŋs |
棈 | *sʰleːns |
蒨 | *sʰeːns |
篟 | *sʰeːns |
生 | *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs |
牲 | *sreŋ |
笙 | *sreŋ |
甥 | *sreŋ |
鉎 | *sreŋ, *sleːŋ |
珄 | *sreŋ |
鼪 | *sreŋ, *sreŋs |
猩 | *sreŋ, *seːŋ |
狌 | *sreŋ |
眚 | *sreŋʔ |
貹 | *sreŋs |
崝 | *zreːŋ |
精 | *ʔsleŋ, *ʔsleŋs |
菁 | *ʔsleŋ |
鶄 | *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ |
蜻 | *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ |
鼱 | *ʔsleŋ |
婧 | *ʔsleŋ, *zleŋs, *zleŋʔ |
睛 | *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleŋʔ |
箐 | *ʔsleŋ |
聙 | *ʔsleŋ |
旌 | *ʔsleŋ |
清 | *sʰleŋ |
圊 | *sʰleŋ |
請 | *sʰleŋʔ, *zleŋs, *zleŋ |
凊 | *sʰleŋs |
䝼 | *zleŋs, *zleŋ |
靚 | *zleŋs |
情 | *zleŋ |
晴 | *zleŋ |
夝 | *zleŋ |
靜 | *zleŋʔ |
靖 | *zleŋʔ |
睲 | *seŋʔ, *seːŋs |
惺 | *seŋʔ, *seːŋ |
性 | *sleŋs |
姓 | *sleŋs |
靗 | *l̥ʰeŋs |
鯖 | *ʔljeŋ, *sʰleːŋ |
青 | *sʰleːŋ |
靘 | *sʰleːŋ, *sʰleːŋs |
掅 | *sʰleːŋs |
胜 | *sleːŋ |
曐 | *sleːŋ |
星 | *sleːŋ |
鮏 | *sleːŋ |
腥 | *seːŋ, *seːŋs |
鯹 | *seːŋ |
醒 | *seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs |
篂 | *seːŋ |
Pronunciation
Definitions
笙
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See also
- 樦 (zhù)
Compounds
References
- “笙”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese

Chinese shēng (L) & Japanese shō (R)
Readings
- Go-on: しょう (shō)←しゃう (syau, historical)
- Kan-on: そう (sō)←さう (sau, historical)
- Kan’yō-on: せい (sei)
- Kun: ふえ (fue, 笙)
Etymology 1
Kanji in this term |
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笙 |
しょう Jinmeiyō |
on’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 笙 (*shræng). Goon, so likely the original reading as first borrowed from Middle Chinese. Compare modern Mandarin 笙 (shēng).
Noun
笙 (hiragana しょう, rōmaji shō, historical hiragana しゃう)
- (music) the sho
- A free-reed woodwind musical instrument consisting of a mouthpiece and seventeen pipes, each similar to an organ pipe. Developed from the Chinese shēng that was introduced to Japan during the Nara Period. Traditionally used to provide accompaniment in gagaku (traditional Japanese court music), and now also used in some contemporary music.
Synonyms
- 鳳管 (hōkan)
Derived terms
- 笙の笛 (shō no fue): a type of simplified sho used as a toy
- 笙歌 (shōka), 笙歌 (seika): singing to a sho accompaniment; to sing to a sho accompaniment; a song sung to a sho accompaniment
- 笙岩屋 (Shō no Iwaya), 笙窟 (Shō no Iwaya): a cave and pilgrimage destination in central Nara Prefecture
- 鳳笙 (hōshō): sho
- 蘆笙 (roshō)
Etymology 2
Kanji in this term |
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笙 |
そう Jinmeiyō |
on’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 笙. Kan'on, so likely a historically later reading. Compare modern Cantonese 笙 (saang¹, sang¹). Seen in The Tale of Genji.
This reading is obsolete in modern Japanese.
Korean
Hanja
笙 • (saeng) (hangeul 생, revised saeng, McCune–Reischauer saeng, Yale sayng)
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Vietnamese
Han character
笙 (sanh)
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