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竽
yú
1. free reed mouth organ, with wooden pipes stuck into a gourd (larger version of [[笙<shēng>]])
Uncommon • Top 41% ✏️ 9 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

竽
yú
free reed mouth organ
9 丶

Compound Words (3)

滥竽
lànyú
indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification)
吹竽手
chuīyúshǒu
player of the yu [[竽]] (free reed mouth organ)
滥竽充数
lànyúchōngshù
lit. to play the yu [[竽]] mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products

Metadata

Category
Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
4,934
Word Frequency Rank
34,911 of 84,292