笙

笙 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹手一 (HHQM), four-corner 8810₄, composition ⿱𥫗生)

1. a sheng; a hand-held free-reed mouth organ made from a dried gourd and 13 or more bamboo pipes

• KangXi: page 879, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25913
• Dae Jaweon: page 1307, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2955, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7B19

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sreŋ) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mriŋ (“sound; noise; animal cry”); cognate with 鳴 (OC *mreŋ, “to make a sound”), 鈴 (OC *reːŋ, “bell”), Burmese မြည် (mrany, “to make a sound”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

笙

笙

1. (music) sheng (a Chinese mouth-blown free reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes)

• 樦 (zhù)

• “笙”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: ふえ (fue, 笙)^{←ふえ (fue, 笙, historical)←ふ𛀁 (fuye, 笙, ancient)}

• 蘆笙(ろしょう) (roshō)
• 笙歌(せいか) (seika)

Chinese shēng (left) & Japanese shō (right)

/ɕau/ → /ɕɔː/ → /ɕoː/

From Middle Chinese 笙 (MC ʃˠæŋ). The goon reading, so likely the original reading as first borrowed from Middle Chinese. Compare modern Mandarin 笙 (shēng).

The shō was developed from the Chinese shēng that was introduced to Japan during the Nara period.

• (Tokyo) しょ​ー [shóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ː]

笙(しょう) • (shō) ^{←しやう (syau)?}

1. a free-reed woodwind musical instrument used in Japanese court music, consisting of a mouthpiece and seventeen pipes, each similar to an organ pipe

   Synonym: 鳳管 (hōkan)

• → English: sho

/sau/ → /sɔː/ → /soː/

From Middle Chinese 笙 (MC ʃˠæŋ). The kan'on, so likely a historically later reading.

Compare modern Cantonese 笙 (saang¹, sang¹).

• IPA^(key): [so̞ː]

笙(そう) • (sō) ^{←さう (sau)?}

1. (obsolete) a free-reed woodwind musical instrument consisting of a mouthpiece and seventeen pipes, each similar to an organ pipe

• Gagaku on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

笙 • (saeng) (hangeul 생, revised saeng, McCune–Reischauer saeng, Yale sayng)

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• 笙簧

笙: Hán Nôm readings: sanh

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