笙
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sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 竹 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 笙
- Common rank
- #3,326
- Unicode
- U+7B19
Formation & memory
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Words with 笙
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 杜月笙 | Du Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secret-society leader, banker, industrialist | |
| 笙管 | pipes of a panpipe | |
| 胡笙 | pipe wind instrument introduced from the non-Han peoples in the North and West | |
| 排笙 | reed-pipe wind instrument with a keyboard | |
| 笙歌 | music and song (formal writing) | |
| 竹笙 | bamboo fungus | |
| 芦笙 | reed-pipe wind instrument | |
| 笙簧 | reeds of a panpipe | |
| 笙箫 | reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 生 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生 sound part | life, lifetime; birth; growth | |
| 性 | sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective | |
| 星 | star, planet; a point of light | |
| 胜 | victory; to excel, to truimph | |
| 姓 | name, family name, surname; clan, people | |
| 牲 | sacrificial animal; domestic animal | |
| 甥 | niece, nephew; sister's child | |
| 旌 | to signal; a flag adorned with feathers | |
| 眚 | cataract; fault, error, crime |