笙

11 strokes
Jinmeiyou kanji used in names
Kentei exam level 1
JLPT exam level N1

a reed instrument

Kun'yomi
  • ふえ
On'yomi
  • ショウ
    		traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes
  • ソウ
    		traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes

Main Radical

竹(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

ショウ 100.0%

Character Breakdown

a reed instrument
ショウ　ソウ　ふえ (Kentei 1, N1)
bamboo
たけ　チク　たか (1st, N2)
individual(個) variant
knife, wrapping enclosure(勹) variant
feathered stick, barb radical (no. 6)
ケツ　かぎ (Kentei 1)
life, genuine, birth
セイ　い.きる　う.まれる (1st, N5)

Common Words

しょう
笙
traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes
ほう
鳳
しょう
笙
shō (Japanese free reed musical instrument)
しょう
笙
　
の
ふえ
笛
shō (Japanese free reed musical instrument)
しょう
笙
か
歌
singing and playing the shō
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References

Unicode hex code 7B19
JIS X 0208 1-67-89
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 3377
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 4264
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 3302
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha) 1709
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 2322
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2628
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 2672
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 25913
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana 2188
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 6f5.4
Four corner code 8810.4