笙

しょう

Also written そう

Meanings

1. Noun traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes; free-reed instrument used in Japanese court music

Kanji

• 笙 a reed instrument. Read as ショウ.

Words containing 笙

• 鳳笙 (ほうしょう) shō (Japanese free reed musical instrument)
• 笙の笛 (しょうのふえ) shō (Japanese free reed musical instrument)
• 笙歌 (しょうか) singing and playing the shō

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