sheng
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃʌŋ/, (anglicized) /ʃɛŋ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌŋ, -ɛŋ
Noun
sheng (plural shengs)
- A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).
Translations
Chinese wind instrument
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See also
- sheng nu (also derived from Chinese, though not necessarily related)
Mandarin
Romanization
sheng
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
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