笙
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Translingual [edit]
Han character [edit]
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 [edit]
- 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
Cantonese [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
笙 (jyutping saang1, sang1, Yale saang1, sang1)
Japanese [edit]
Kanji [edit]
Readings [edit]
- Go'on: しょう (shō), (historical) しゃう (shau)
- Kan'on: そう (sō), (historical) さう (sau)
- Kanyō'on: せい (sei)
- Kun: ふえ (fue)
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle Chinese 笙 (/*shræng/). Goon, so likely the original reading as first borrowed from Middle Chinese. Compare modern Mandarin 笙 (shēng).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
笙 (hiragana しょう, romaji 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.
Derived terms [edit]
- 笙の笛 (しょうのふえ, shō no fue): a type of simplified sho used as a toy
- 笙歌 (しょうか,shōka; せいか, seika): singing to a sho accompaniment; to sing to a sho accompaniment; a song sung to a sho accompaniment
- 笙岩屋, 笙窟 (しょうのいわや, Shō no Iwaya): a cave and pilgrimage destination in central Nara Prefecture
See also [edit]
Gagaku on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Gagaku
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Middle Chinese 笙. Kan'on, so likely an historically later reading. Compare modern Cantonese 笙 (saang¹, sang¹). Seen in The Tale of Genji.
This reading is obsolete in modern Japanese.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
笙 (hiragana そう, romaji sō, historical hiragana さう)
Korean [edit]
Hanja [edit]
笙 (hangeul 생, revised saeng, McCune-Reischauer saeng, Yale sayng)
Compounds [edit]
Mandarin [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
笙 (pinyin shēng (sheng1), Wade-Giles sheng1)
Compounds [edit]
See also [edit]
Middle Chinese [edit]
Han character [edit]
笙 (*shræng, ṣạiŋ)
Vietnamese [edit]
Han character [edit]
笙 (sanh)
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- Han characters
- Common kanji
- Japanese kanji
- Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese
- Japanese nouns
- ja:Musical instruments
- Japanese terms with obsolete senses
- Japanese terms written with one Han script character
- Japanese terms spelled with 笙
- Korean hanja
- cmn:Musical instruments in simplified script
- cmn:Musical instruments in traditional script
- Vietnamese Han tu
