竽

Translingual

Han character

竽 (radical 118 竹+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹一木 (HMD), four-corner 8840₁)

1. an ancient free reed mouth organ consisting of bamboo pipes fixed in a wind chest; it was similar to the sheng but generally larger
2. a kind of musical instrument with 36 reeds

References

• 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

竽 (Yale yu1, yu4)

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Japanese

Kanji

竽 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: う (u)
• Kun: ふえ (fue)

Noun

竽 (hiragana う, romaji u)

1. (obsolete) a woodwind instrument introduced to Japan from China during the Nara Period; similar to a large 笙 (shō, “a free-reed woodwind instrument”)

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Korean

Hanja

竽 (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

竽 (pinyin yú (yu2), Wade-Giles yü²)

Compounds

• 滥竽充数

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Middle Chinese

Han character

竽 (hio)

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Vietnamese

Han character

竽 (vu)