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See also: 竿
U+7AFD, 竽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AFD

[U+7AFC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7AFE]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 118, +3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹一木 (HMD), four-corner 88401, composition 𥫗)

  1. an ancient free reed mouth organ consisting of bamboo pipes fixed in a wind chest; it was similar to the sheng but generally larger
  2. a kind of musical instrument with 36 reeds

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 877, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25851
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1306, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2948, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7AFD

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (35)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter hju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦio/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦuə̆/
Li
Rong
/ɣio/
Wang
Li
/ɣĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jyu4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ hju ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a/
English reed organ

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 15709
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷa/

Definitions

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  1. (historical) the yu, a wind instrument used in ancient China

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

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  • Go-on: (u)
  • Kan-on: (u)
  • Kun: ふえ (fue, )

Etymology

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Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja

From Middle Chinese (MC hju). Compare modern Mandarin ().[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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() (u

  1. a woodwind instrument introduced to Japan from China during the Nara period, similar to a (shō, a kind of free-reed woodwind instrument), but larger and one octave lower in pitch
    This instrument fell out of use for 雅楽 (gagaku, court music) in the mid-Heian period, and was later reconstructed after World War II based in part on artifacts at the Shōsōin.

Idioms

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC hju).

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 피리 (piri u))

  1. flute
  2. chief

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]
  • Zonmal.com Hanja Dictionary (존말닷컴 한자사전/漢字辭典) (2002-2005). [2]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: vu

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