How to write 笙

笙 [shēng] 1. The name of a wind instrument, usually made of thirteen bamboo pipes of different lengths, played by blowing. Example: 笙歌 (shēng gē - songs accompanied by the sheng), 芦笙 (lú shēng - a type of sheng made from reed), 笙管乐 (shēng guǎn yuè - sheng music). 【本义】: 簧管乐器 (the original meaning: a type of reed wind instrument) 【造字法】: 形声。从竹，生声 (the method of character formation: a phono-semantic compound; composed of the radical for bamboo and the meaning of sound). 引: 1. From "Shuowen Jiezi": 笙, thirteen reeds symbolize the body of a phoenix. The sheng, the sound of the first month, is called sheng because living things come to life. 2. From "Erya": A large sheng is called chao, and a smaller one is called he. 3. From "Fengsu Tong": The sheng is four feet long. 4. Three people blow the sheng, and one person plays the he, which is the smaller one. — From "Yili · Xiang She Li Ji" Annotation 5. From "Shijing · Xiaoya · Luming": I have honored guests, with drums and sheng being played. 【例】 Example phrases: - 笙弄 (shēng nòng - playing the sheng) - 笙簧 (shēng huáng - reed wind instrument) - 笙咽 (shēng yān - dissonance in the sheng's sound quality) - 笙竽 (shēng yú - sheng and yú) - 笙匏 (shēng páo - sheng and páo) - 笙筑 (shēng zhù - sheng and zhù) - 笙暖 (shēng nuǎn - heating the reeds of the sheng to enhance sound quality) - 笙籁 (shēng lái - sheng and lái, ancient wind instruments) - 笙镛 (shēng yōng - also known as "shēng yōng", name of an ancient instrument)