笙
sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,326 U+7B19
How 笙 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺮ (semantic, “bamboo”) + 生 (phonetic, shēng)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 生
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 生 (shēng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生 sound component | shēng | life, lifetime; birth; growth |
| 性 | xìng | sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective |
| 星 | xīng | star, planet; a point of light |
| 胜 | shèng | victory; to excel, to truimph |
| 姓 | xìng | name, family name, surname; clan, people |
| 牲 | shēng | sacrificial animal; domestic animal |
| 甥 | shēng | niece, nephew; sister's child |
| 旌 | jīng | to signal; a flag adorned with feathers |
| 眚 | shěng | cataract; fault, error, crime |
Words containing 笙
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 杜月笙 | Dù Yuè shēng | Du Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secret-society leader, banker, industrialist |
| 笙管 | shēng guǎn | pipes of a panpipe |
| 胡笙 | hú shēng | pipe wind instrument introduced from the non-Han peoples in the North and West |
| 排笙 | pái shēng | reed-pipe wind instrument with a keyboard |
| 笙歌 | shēng gē | music and song (formal writing) |
| 竹笙 | zhú shēng | bamboo fungus |
| 芦笙 | lú shēng | reed-pipe wind instrument |
| 笙簧 | shēng huáng | reeds of a panpipe |
| 笙箫 | shēng xiāo | reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute |