笙 — Chinese character
笙
shēng
free reed mouth organ
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 生
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bamboo; meaning component ⺮; sound component 生
- Japanese
- 笙 as a kanji
Common words with 笙
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 芦笙 (蘆笙) | lú shēng | reed-pipe wind instrument |
| 笙歌 | shēng gē | music and song (formal writing) |
| 笙箫 (笙簫) | shēng xiāo | reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute |
| 胡笙 | hú shēng | pipe wind instrument introduced from the non-Han peoples in the North and West |
| 笙簧 | shēng huáng | reeds of a panpipe |
| 排笙 | pái shēng | reed-pipe wind instrument with a keyboard |
| 竹笙 | zhú shēng | bamboo fungus |
| 笙管 | shēng guǎn | pipes of a panpipe |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.