箫 — Chinese character
箫
xiāo
bamboo flute
- Pinyin
- xiāo
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 肃
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bamboo; meaning component ⺮; sound component 肃
- Traditional
- 簫
Common words with 箫
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吹箫 (吹簫) | chuī xiāo | to play the xiao 箫 (xiāo), a vertical bamboo flute; (literary) to beg on the streets (abbr. for 吴市吹箫 (wú shì chuī xiāo)) |
| 排箫 (排簫) | pái xiāo | panpipes |
| 笙箫 (笙簫) | shēng xiāo | reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute |
| 吴市吹箫 (吳市吹簫) | wú shì chuī xiāo | (idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥 (Wǔ Zǐ xū) exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records o |
| 吹箫乞食 (吹簫乞食) | chuī xiāo qǐ shí | see 吴市吹箫 (wú shì chuī xiāo) |
| 玉人吹箫 (玉人吹簫) | yù rén chuī xiāo | virtuoso piper wins a beauty; the xiao 箫 (xiāo) (mouth organ) virtuoso 萧史 (Xiāo Shǐ) won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公 (Qín Mù gōng) |
| 鼻箫 (鼻簫) | bí xiāo | nose flute |
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.