How to write 簫, stroke by stroke
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What 簫 means
xiao, a vertical bamboo flute
Pictophonetic: semantic ⺮ (bamboo), phonetic 肅
Made of 肅
Words with 簫
- 排簫pái xiāopanpipes
- 鼻簫bí xiāonose flute
- 笙簫shēng xiāoreed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute
- 玉人吹簫yù rén chuī xiāovirtuoso piper wins a beauty; the xiao 箫 (mouth organ) virtuoso 萧史 won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公
- 吹簫chuī xiāoto play the xiao 箫, a vertical bamboo flute; (literary) to beg on the streets (abbr. for 吴市吹箫); (slang) to give a blowjob
- 吳市吹簫wú shì chuī xiāo(idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥 exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史记)
- 吹簫乞食chuī xiāo qǐ shísee 吴市吹箫