簫

簫 U+7C2B, 簫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C2B ← 簪 [U+7C2A] CJK Unified Ideographs 簬 → [U+7C2C]

Traditional	簫
Shinjitai (extended)	簘
Simplified	箫

簫 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹中難 (HLX), four-corner 8822₇, composition ⿱𥫗肅)

• 𡅣, 𢹱, 𤄙, 𮨳

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 900, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26560
• Dae Jaweon: page 1326, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3023, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7C2B

trad.		簫
simp.		箫
alternative forms		簘 箾 𪛕 𱍉 𪛖

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sɯːw) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 肅 (OC *sɯwɢ).

簫

1. (music) xiao, a vertical, notched, end-blown bamboo flute used since ancient times in Chinese traditional and classical music
2. (music, historical) paixiao; panpipes
3. (Cantonese, Northern Min, Eastern Min) transverse flute
4. a surname: Xiao

Shinjitai	簘
Kyūjitai	簫

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 簘)

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kun: ふえ (fue, 簫)

Kanji in this term
簫
しょう Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 簫／箫 (sew, “xiao (Chinese flute)”).

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

簫(しょう) • (shō) ^{←せう (seu)?}

1. xiao, a vertically blown Chinese flute

Synonymous with the longer phrase 簫の笛 (shō no fue, literally “shō flute”).^[1] However, given the rarity of this kanji in writing, and the large number of possible single-kanji terms pronounced as shō in Japanese, this longer term that specifies 笛 (“flute”) is used to clarify and disambiguate.

簫 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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• 短簫

簫: Hán Nôm readings: tiêu, tiu

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