簫

simpl.		箫
trad.		簫

Translingual

Han character

簫 (radical 118 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹中X (HLX), four-corner 8822₇)

1. a musical instrument like pan-pipes (also called 排簫)
2. a vertical, notched, end-blown bamboo flute used since ancient times in Chinese traditional and classical music

References

• KangXi: page 900, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26560
• Dae Jaweon: page 1326, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3023, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7C2B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

簫 (simplified 箫, Yale siu1)

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Japanese

Kanji

簫

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: ふえ (fue)

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Korean

Hanja

簫 (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

Compounds

• 短簫

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Mandarin

Hanzi

簫 (simplified 箫, pinyin xiāo (xiao1), xiǎo (xiao3), Wade-Giles hsiao¹, hsiao³)

Compounds

• 排簫

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Middle Chinese

Han character

簫 (*seu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

簫 (tiêu, tiu)