竽
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Translingual[edit]
Han character[edit]
竽 (radical 118 竹+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹一木 (HMD), four-corner 88401)
- an ancient free reed mouth organ consisting of bamboo pipes fixed in a wind chest; it was similar to the sheng but generally larger
- a kind of musical instrument with 36 reeds
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 877, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25851
- Dae Jaweon: page 1306, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2948, character 3
- Unihan data for U+7AFD
Cantonese[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
竽 (Jyutping jyu1, jyu4, Yale yu1, yu4)
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Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
竽
Readings[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Chinese 竽 (*hju). Compare modern Mandarin 竽 (yú).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- a woodwind instrument introduced to Japan from China during the Nara period, similar to a 笙 (shō, “a kind of free-reed woodwind instrument”), but larger and one octave lower in pitch
- This instrument fell out of use for 雅楽 (gagaku, “court music”) in the mid-Heian period, and was later reconstructed after World War II based in part on artifacts at the Shōsōin.
Idioms[edit]
- 竽を好むに瑟を鼓す (u o konomu ni shitsu o kosu): “to play a bass koto to someone who likes the u” → to do something that doesn't suit a person's tastes or preferences
References[edit]
- ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
竽 (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)
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Mandarin[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
竽 (Pinyin yú (yu2), Wade-Giles yü2)
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Compounds[edit]
Middle Chinese[edit]
Han character[edit]
竽 (hio)
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Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
竽 (vu)
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- Han script characters
- Cantonese lemmas
- Cantonese Han characters
- Japanese Han characters
- Uncommon kanji
- Japanese kanji read as う
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- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with hyōgaiji kanji
- Japanese terms written with one Han script character
- Japanese terms spelled with 竽
- Korean lemmas
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- Mandarin Han characters
- zh:Musical instruments
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