shēng xiāo
Traditional: 笙簫
笙箫 (shēng xiāo) is a Chinese word meaning “reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute”.
Meanings
- 1reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute
Characters in 笙箫
Related words
箫xiao, a vertical bamboo flute排箫panpipes笙sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes排笙reed-pipe wind instrument with a keyboard竹笙bamboo fungus笙歌music and song (formal writing)笙管pipes of a panpipe笙簧reeds of a panpipe胡笙pipe wind instrument introduced from the non-Han peoples in the North and West芦笙reed-pipe wind instrument杜月笙Du Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secret-society leader, banker, industrialist吴市吹箫(idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])