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笙
shēng
1. free reed mouth organ, with wooden pipes stuck into a gourd
Uncommon • Top 50% ✏️ 11 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

笙
shēng
free reed mouth organ
11 丶

Compound Words (9)

排笙
páishēng
reed-pipe wind instrument with a keyboard
竹笙
zhúshēng
bamboo fungus
笙歌
shēnggē
music and song (formal writing)
笙管
shēngguǎn
pipes of a panpipe
笙簧
shēnghuáng
reeds of a panpipe
笙箫
shēngxiāo
reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute
胡笙
húshēng
pipe wind instrument introduced from the non-Han peoples in the North and West
芦笙
lúshēng
reed-pipe wind instrument
杜月笙
DùYuèshēng
Du Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secret-society leader, banker, industrialist

Metadata

Category
Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
3,890
Word Frequency Rank
42,041 of 84,292